Michael Blaakman
I am a second-year Ph.D. student in early American history, with particular interests in political and cultural history, the history of capitalism, and the comparative study of revolutions. My dissertation project, currently in its earliest stages, is a national study of land speculators and land mania in the early republic. I am also interested in gender history, and am working on an article-length microhistory of one nineteenth-century woman’s legal campaign to recover a lost landed inheritance in central New York.
Originally from Rochester, New York, I graduated in 2009 from the College of William and Mary with a B.A. in History. From 2009 to 2010, a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship brought me to a university in Košice, Slovakia, where I taught English and American Studies.
When not rummaging through monographs and archives, I enjoy choral singing, sailing, and trying to learn how to cook. Please feel free to contact me with any questions about Yale's graduate program in History.
