Participant Info
- First Name
- Idolina
- Last Name
- Hernandez
- Country
- United States
- State
- MO Missouri
- idolina.hernandez@slu.edu
- Affiliation
- Saint Louis University
- Website URL
- http://www.idolinahernandez.com
- Keywords
- Early America, American Revolution, Founding Era, Atlantic History, Legal History, refugees, migration, settler colonialism,
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- other credentials
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
I am a Ph.D. Candidate at Saint Louis University working on my dissertation “Exiled Abroad: Refugees in the Making of Early America.” I explore how the entry of refugee groups from other empires transformed ideas about the rights afforded to foreigners who were classified as refugees by parliamentary and colonial authorities. These refugees prompted shifts in legal, economic, and social institutions across the Atlantic that transformed the meaning of birth rights and naturalization in the early modern period. These changes allowed for their legal and economic inclusion in the British Empire and established a system of preferences based on gender, race, wealth and religion that echoed in the Early American Republic.
- Recent Publications
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- @idolinahernandz
- Country Focus
- British American Colonies, United States
- Expertise by Geography
- Atlantic, British Isles, United States
- Expertise by Chronology
- 17th century, 18th century, Early Modern
- Expertise by Topic
- American Revolution, American Founding Era, Colonialism, Diplomacy, Environment, Law, Migration & Immigration
