Participant Info
- First Name
- Kim
- Last Name
- Sherman
- Country
- United States
- State
- NC
- hellokbsherman@gmail.com
- Affiliation
- University of North Carolina Wilmington
- Website URL
- www.kbsherman.com
- Keywords
- Early America, British Atlantic, Early Modern Scotland | family and Kinship, social networks, travel writing, deathways, burial grounds | Intersection of history and contemporary popular culture | Public History
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- shermank@uncw.edu
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
I am historian, writer, and educator working on the history of the family in early America and the Atlantic world. I specialize in social networks based on kinship and other affiliations among Scots in the eighteenth century Atlantic world, and particularly their personal writings. My current work is on Janet Schaw, a Scottish traveler who visited the Caribbean and North Carolina from 1774-1775.
My work in the Lower Cape Fear of North Carolina has also led to a research and teaching specialty in American slavery and capitalism. I also teach and work in Public History, where I have an interest in burial grounds and material culture surrounding deathways.
- Recent Publications
- “Never Out and Never Over: Good Times at the Bijou,” Salt Magazine (March 2020)
- “Thistle Among the Pines: Flora MacDonald and the Highland Scots of the Cape Fear,” Salt Magazine (December 2019)
- “Emigration as Epidemic: Perspectives on the Eighteenth-century Scottish Highlands,” Nursing Clio (February 2019). Web.
- “Whose Milk? Changing US Attitudes toward Maternal Breastfeeding,” Nursing Clio (September 2018). Web.
- Interview: “Highland Charge: Scots in the Cape Fear,” Cape Fear Unearthed Podcast, February 27, 2020.
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- Country Focus
- Early America, United States, Scotland
- Expertise by Geography
- Atlantic, British Isles, Caribbean, North America, United Kingdom, United States
- Expertise by Chronology
- 17th century, 18th century, 19th century, Early Modern, Modern
- Expertise by Topic
- American Revolution, American Founding Era, Capitalism, Colonialism, Environment, Family, Gender, Local & Regional, Material Culture, Medicine, Migration & Immigration, Public History, Race, Slavery, Women
