Participant Info
- First Name
- Blake
- Last Name
- Grindon
- Country
- United States
- State
- 30
- bgrindon@princeton.edu
- Affiliation
- Princeton University, Doctoral Candidate in History
- Website URL
- https://history.princeton.edu/people/blake-grindon
- Keywords
- American Revolution, Military History, Canadian History, Native American History, Early American History
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- other credentials
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
I am a Doctoral Candidate in History at Princeton University, where I am at work on my dissertation tentatively titled, “The Death of Jane McCrea: Sovereignty and Revolutionary Violence in the Northeast.”
My project examines the much-publicized death of a single white American colonist during the early years of the American Revolutionary War, its connections to the century of warfare that preceded it and its place within debates about legitimate violence and statehood.
While the current focus of my work is the American Revolutionary War, my research more generally focuses on violence and war in eighteenth-century North American and the Atlantic World. I am especially interested in intercultural brokerage, captivity, and race in the Early Modern era. Throughout my work, I am an interested the role of violence in relationships between Indigenous people and colonists in the eighteenth-century Northeast and its continuing implication for the political landscape of the Northeast today.
- Recent Publications
Scholarly Articles
“Hilliard d’Auberteuil’s Mis Mac Rea: A Story of the American Revolution in the French Atlantic,” William and Mary Quarterly, vol. 79, no. 4 (October 2022)
“Kahnawake-French Diplomacy and the Multiple Meanings of the American Revolutionary War in the Northeast,” in Underrepresented Voices of the American Revolution, ed. Cassie Cloutier, Kanisorn Wongsrichanalai, and Serena Zabin (in preparation).
Public Media
“What Can Jane McCrea Tell Us about the American Revolution Today?” The Saratoga County Compass blogpost, December 1, 2021
“An American Frontier in Paris” forthcoming in the second season of OAH’s Intervals podcast, 2022-23
- Media Coverage
- @_Blake_writes
- Country Focus
- United States, Canada
- Expertise by Geography
- Atlantic, North America
- Expertise by Chronology
- 4, 6
- Expertise by Topic
- American Revolution, American Founding Era, Colonialism, Diplomacy, Gender, Indigenous Peoples, Material Culture, Military, Race, Rebellion & Revolution, Slavery, Women
