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Department of History, Dugan Hall University of Massachusetts Lowell 883 Broadway Street, Lowell, MA 01854 abigail_chandler@uml.edu 978-934-4529 Education University of Maine at Orono, Ph.D. in History, Degree granted in December 2008. Dissertation: At the Magistrate’s Discretion: Sexual Crime and New England Law, 1636-1718. University of Massachusetts at Amherst, M.A. in American History, Certificate in Public History, Degree granted in 2002. Colby College, B.A. with Distinction in History, Degree granted in 1996. Teaching University of Massachusetts Lowell • Assistant Professor in Early American History and Public History, September, 2010-Present Utah Valley University • Visiting Assistant Professor in Early American History and Public History, Academic Year 2009-2010 University of Maine at Augusta • Instructor in United States History to 1877 and United States History Since 1877, Academic Year 2008-2009 University of Maine at Orono • Instructor: United States History to 1877, Spring 2007-Summer 2009 • Instructor: “A Midwife’s Tale and the Social Web,” online interdisciplanary studies class, Spring 2009
“Dressing for History: Teaching in Eighteenth-Century Clothing.” [will be published in Commonplace: The Interactive Journal of Early American Life, April 2016]. Law and Sexual Misconduct in New England, 1650-1750: Steering Toward England, Ashgate, Fall 2015. “From Birthing Chamber to Court Room: The Medical and Legal Communities of the Colonial Essex County Midwife,” Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2015; 10 (1):109-137. “Teaching with a Tea Set: Using Objects in the US History Survey,” Perspectives on History, 2014; 52 (4). “Captives, Slaves and Writers: Teaching Olaudah Equiano as Captivity Narrative,” book chapter in Eric Lamore, Ed., Teaching the Interesting Narrative of Olaudah Equiano, University of Tennessee Press, 2012. “‘And the author of wickedness Surely is most to be blamed’: The Deposition of Debora Proctor,” Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers, 2011; 28 (2), 312-327. "Branching into the Classroom: Living History Away from the Museum," Proceedings of the 2010 Conference and Annual Meeting for the Association for Living History, Farms and Agricultural Museum, Volume XXXIII, 2011 “‘Incontinent Practices:’ Women, Language and Sexual Crime Trials in Colonial Maine,” Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2010; 5 (1), 217-223. Conferences and Presentations Will present “‘The said Margaret Prays Process against Him’: Public and Private Lives in Colonial Maine’s Court Rooms,” Maine Historical Society, April 2016 Will present “The Interconnected Atlantic World,” Babcock Lecture in History, University of Maine, Orono, Maine, April 2016 Will present “‘Unawed by the Laws of their Country’: The Role of English Law in North Carolina’s Regulator Rebellion,” Early American History Seminar, Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, Massachusetts, March 2016 Presented “From Birthing Chamber to Court Room: Law, Kinship and the Essex County Midwife,” Early America Conference, The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, Amherst, Massachusetts, November 2015
Led discussion on “Law in Seventeenth-Century Massachusetts,” for The Partnership of the Historic Boston’s Primary Source Document Discussion series, June 2015 Presented “Call the Midwife! A Look at Colonial Midwifery” at the Topsfield Historical Society, Topsfield, Massachusetts, May 2015 Presented “The Midwives of Colonial Essex County” at the Peabody Historical Society, Peabody, Massachusetts, March 2014 Presented “An Odd Adventure: Variations on the New England Captivity Narrative Tradition,” Seventeenth Century Warfare, Diplomacy & Society in the American Northeast Conference, Mashantucket, Connecticut, October 2013 Co-presented “Sexual Misconduct and Blasphemy in a Changing Massachusetts Society" as part of the Boston Charter Day Celebration, Boston, Massachusetts, September 2013 Presented “The Midwives of Colonial Essex County,” Peabody Institute Library, Danvers, Massachusetts, July 2012. Co-presented “Remapping Reputation: Virtue, Violence, and Victimhood” Workshop at the Attending to Early Modern Women Conference, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, June 2012 Presented "'Always Ready and Willing to do for them what lay in her Power': The Legal Role of the Essex County Midwife" at the Fine Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Faculty Research Series, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, Massachusetts, February 2012 Presented “‘I Charged her to Spake the Truth’: The Legal Role of the Colonial Midwife” at the Boston College Legal History Roundtable, Boston, Massachusetts, February 2012 Presented “‘I Charged her to Spake the Truth’: Midwives and Unwed Mothers in Essex County” at the Early American History Seminar, Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, Massachusetts, December 2011 Chaired and commented on “Domestic Politics” session at the New England Historical Association Conference, Boston, Massachusetts, October 2011 Presented “‘I Charged her to Spake the Truth’: Midwives, Unwed Mothers and Paternity Support in Essex County” at the 17th Annual Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture Conference, New Paltz, New York, June 2011 Presented “‘His Relations Being Great Men’: Households and Sexual Crime in Essex County Massachusetts” at the British Group in Early American History Conference, Oxford, England, September 2010 Presented “Branching into the Classroom: Living History Away from the Museum” at the Association of Living History, Farm and Agricultural Museums Annual Meeting and Conference, Worcester, Massachusetts, June, 2010. Presented “I Made Fresh Pursuit after Him”: Law, Order and Sexual Misconduct on the Maine Frontier at the Early American Borderlands Conference, St. Augustine, Florida, May 2010 Presented “He hath Absented Himself from Her: Saints and Strangers in Plymouth Colony” at the British Group in Early American History Conference, Manchester, England, September 2008 Presented “The True Case Concerning Thomas Choat: The 1705 Declaration of Deborah Proctor” at the 14th Annual Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture Conference, Boston, Massachusetts, June 2008 Presented “By Violence Abused’ or an ‘Act of Uncleanness’: The Fornication Trial of Elizabeth Sessions and Joseph Chandler” at the New England History Association Conference, Manchester, New Hampshire, May 2007 Museum Experience Newport Historical Society, Newport, Rhode Island • Intern: Developed interpretation for portrayal of eighteenth century Newport resident, Martin Howard, 2005. Historic St. Mary’s City, St. Mary’s City, Maryland. • Governor’s Field Supervisor: Supervised all programming for 1684 Governor’s Field site, 2000. Living History Farms, Urbandale, Iowa • Assistant Site Supervisor, 1850 Farm and Curator of museum research library, 1997-2000. Homeplace 1850, Land Between the Lakes, Tennessee • Domestic Arts Apprentice: Developed interpretive plan for the museum, 1996-1997. Fellowships and Awards Archie K. Davis Fellowship, North Carolinia Society, Spring 2015 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Grant, Summer 2011 Teaching Excellence Award, History Department, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Academic Year 2010-2011 Outstanding Graduate Ph.D. Student in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Academic Year 2008-2009 University of Maine Graduate Research Fellowship, Academic Year 2007-2008 Charles J. Dunn Dissertation Research Grant, Summer 2007 John J. Nolde Lectureship in History, University of Maine History Department, Spring 2007 Graduate Student Government Research Fellowships, University of Maine, 2006, 2007 and 2008 Phillips Library Research Fellow, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts, July 2006
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