Participant Info
- First Name
- Connie
- Last Name
- Thomas
- Country
- United Kingdom
- State
- connie_thomas123@hotmail.co.uk
- Affiliation
- University College London
- Website URL
- https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/103107-connie-thomas
- Keywords
- 18th century, 19th century, migration, citizenship, national identity, state & federal politics, legislative process, sectionalism, partisanship, federalism, constitutionalism, popular politics, public memory, modern myth-making.
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- You can contact me at connie.thomas@ucl.ac.uk
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
Dr Connie Thomas is an Associate Lecturer in United States History at University College London (UCL). She completed her PhD at Queen Mary University of London and is currently in the process of turning her thesis into her first book, Out of Many, which explores the relationship between migration policymaking and identity formation in the early American republic.
- Recent Publications
‘“ The Premise of Our Founding” : Immigration and Popular Mythmaking,’ The Panorama, SHEAR (Feb. 2025).
‘An ‘ Asylum for Mankind’ ? Migration in the Early American Republic,’ The Panorama, SHEAR (Sept. 2023)
‘“If they send him off, I think I shall not long be safe myself”: Contesting Early American Citizenship in the Longchamps Affair, 1784-6,’ Journal of the Early Republic, 43/3 (2023), 399- 425.
2020 ‘Born in the USA: Birtherism and the US Presidency,’ U.S. Studies Online: US 2020 Election Series, BAAS (Nov. 2020)
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- @conniethomas.bsky.social
- Country Focus
- United States
- Expertise by Geography
- United States
- Expertise by Chronology
- 18th century, 19th century
- Expertise by Topic
- American Revolution, American Founding Era, American Presidents, Government, Indigenous Peoples, Law, Migration & Immigration, Politics
