Mia Swenson

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Mia Swenson

Ph.D. Student

Contact

Stokes Hall South 380-A

Email: swensoma@bc.edu

Education

  • B.A. in History, Western Washington University (2019)
  • M.A. in History, Boston College (2023)

Courses

Globalization I and II

Atlantic Worlds I

African Diaspora and the World I

Research Interests

Early modern Atlantic world, colonialism, trade and enslavement, societal transformation

Department

History

Areas of Expertise

Mia's research focuses on the early modern Atlantic world circa the 17th and 18th c. Specifically, she is interested in colonialism, trade, enslavement, and the ways in which the early modern world redefined the boundaries between centers and peripheries, as well as order and disorder on these societal edges.

Her undergraduate studies included a historiography of the Salem Witch Trials, as well as an in-depth microhistory of the slaving ship (and eventual pirating vessel) La Concorde de Nantes.

Conference Presentations

"Companies, Corsairs, Catholicism, and the Crown: Contested Tortuga in the Early-to-Mid Seventeenth Century,” The New England Renaissance Conference, Amherst, MA, October 2022

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