Participant Info
- First Name
- Makiki
- Last Name
- Reuvers
- Country
- United States
- State
- PA Pennsylvania
- makiki@sas.upenn.edu
- Affiliation
- University of Pennsylvania
- Website URL
- https://live-sas-www-history.pantheon.sas.upenn.edu/people/grad-students/makiki-reuvers
- Keywords
- Early America
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- other credentials
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
I am currently a Ph.D. candidate in the History Department at the University of Pennsylvania. I hold an M.A. from Penn as well as a B.A. in History and Studies in Cinema and Media Culture from the University of Minnesota — Twin Cities.
My primary research interests center on race, bodies, and religion in borderland spaces in Colonial & Early America. My dissertation, Bodies of Empire: The Political, Religious, and Corporeal Makings of Subjecthood in Seventeenth-Century New England, connects my scholarly interests by looking at transformations of race, empire, and colonial rule for English and Native peoples in seventeenth-century Massachusetts. Bodies of Empire, which spans across the Atlantic, is as much a story of a new world as it is a story about a revoked charter, a popish conspiracy, a glorious revolution, a failed dominion, and the remaking of colonial English subjecthood. Beneath it all, my dissertation tells the story of how Early Modern English scientists, preachers, and politicians spent a century engaging with ideas on bodily difference and religious belonging to ultimately construct Nativeness as a category wholly incompatible with English subjecthood.
- Recent Publications
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- Country Focus
- Expertise by Geography
- North America
- Expertise by Chronology
- Pre-17th century, 17th century, Early Modern
- Expertise by Topic
- Indigenous Peoples, Race, Religion, Science
