Participant Info
- First Name
- Katy
- Last Name
- Telling
- Country
- United States
- State
- 46
- kstelling@email.wm.edu
- Affiliation
- College of William and Mary
- Website URL
- Keywords
- Gender, religion, and power in the colonial American South (Virginia +Carolinas). Quakerism, early American women's history, early American gender history, religious identity in early America, U.S. South
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- other credentials
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
I am a third year doctoral candidate in History at The College of William and Mary. My current dissertation research centers on gender, religion, and power in the early American South. Specifically, I examine the lived and imagined experiences of Quakers in 17th and 18th-century Virginia and the Carolinas through the lens of gender, religious, and regional identity. In addition to my research, I am currently the co-coordinator for The Octo at the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture.
I received my M.A. in History from William & Mary in May 2019. My portfolio, titled “Seeking the Kingdom, Building the Nation: Virginian Religious Identity in the Revolutionary Era” focused on the co-constitutive construction of gender and religious identities in the latter half of eighteenth-century Virginia.
Previously, I worked as the Special Collections Assistant for The University of Texas School of Law’s Tarlton Law Library. I graduated from The University of Texas at Austin in May 2017 with a dual B.A. in History and French. My undergraduate History honors thesis was titled “Among Friends: Philadelphian Quaker Women’s Discourse in the Revolutionary Era,” an exploration of the evolving religious and political commentary of Quaker women in the midst of the American Revolution.
- Recent Publications
Katy Telling. Review of McCurdy, John Gilbert, Quarters: The Accommodation of the British Army and the Coming of the American Revolution. H-Nationalism, H-Net Reviews. January, 2021. URL: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55655
- Media Coverage
- KatyTelling
- Country Focus
- United States
- Expertise by Geography
- North America, United States
- Expertise by Chronology
- 3, 4, 5
- Expertise by Topic
- American Revolution, American Founding Era, Family, Gender, Race, Rebellion & Revolution, Religion, Women