Sarah Pearsall

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Sarah Pearsall
Pearsall in 2021
Academic background
Alma materHarvard University
Doctoral advisorLaurel Thatcher Ulrich
Academic work
DisciplineHistory of North America
InstitutionsJohns Hopkins University

Sarah Marjorie Savage Pearsall is an American historian specialized in the history of North America between c. 1500 and c. 1800. She is a professor and director of undergraduate studies at the Johns Hopkins University Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences.[1]

Pearsall completed a Ph.D. at Harvard University.[1] Her 2001 dissertation was titled After All These Revolutions: Epistolary Identities in an Atlantic World, 1760-1815.[2] Her doctoral advisor was Laurel Thatcher Ulrich.[3][2]

Pearsall is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society.[1] She was co-editor of The Historical Journal.[1]

Selected works[edit]

  • Pearsall, Sarah M. S. (2008). Atlantic Families: Lives and Letters in the Later Eighteenth Century. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-953299-5.[4]
  • Pearsall, Sarah M. S. (2019). Polygamy: An Early American History. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-22684-3.
  • Pearsall, Sarah M. S. (2022). Polygamy: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-753317-8.

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c d "Sarah Pearsall". Johns Hopkins University. July 20, 2021. Retrieved September 18, 2022.
  2. ^ a b Pearsall, Sarah Marjorie Savage (2001). After All These Revolutions: Epistolary Identities in an Atlantic World, 1760-1815 (Ph.D. thesis). Harvard University. OCLC 62531070.
  3. ^ Thorn, Annie (September 16, 2019). "The Author's Corner with Sarah Pearsall". Current. Retrieved September 18, 2022.
  4. ^ Reviews of Atlantic Families:

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