Faculty Member, History
University of New Hampshire, History
Alumna
University of New Hampshire, Durham
Thesis Title: Imagining George Whitefield: Celebrity and the Making of a Religious Icon
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Eliga H. Gould
J. William Harris Jessica Lepler Funso Afolayan |
About
I received my PhD from the University of New Hampshire, Durham in 2012. I specialize in the Eighteenth Century British Atlantic World. My dissertation examines how Whitefield's success at marketing himself created a many-layered and malleable public figure. In turn, Whitefield's observers and followers were able to co-opt his image into multiple narratives, using it in ways that Whitefield never intended. I also hold an MA in History and an MS in Archives and Preservation Management from Simmons College in Boston.
