We Have Our 2016 Teams!

Fern Specimens, circa 1861-1897, L. Prang & Co.

We are delighted to announce our faculty/student teams for the 2016 GLCA Boston Summer Seminar.


Albion College

“Northern Black Lives Matter: The Experience of Black Northerners in the Era of Southern Emancipation”

Marcy Sacks, Chair & John S. Ludington, Endowed Professor of History
with students Corey Wheeler and Elijah Bean

Denison University

“Boston and New England in Atlantic Contexts”

Frank “Trey” Proctor III, Chair & Associate Professor of History
with students Rachael Barrett and Margaret “Maggie” Gorski

Oberlin College

“Haunted Subjects: Occult Practices and New Literary Traditions in Nineteenth-Century America”

Danielle Skeehan, Assistant Professor of English
with students Amreen Ahmed and Sabina Sullivan


Many thanks to all our applicants!  We look forward to many fascinating conversations when we gather in Boston in June!

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