Faculty & Fellows Colloquium

Republicanism Without Borders: The United States and Spanish America in a Revolutionary Age, 1810-1830

Caitlin Fitz (PhD, Yale University, 2011) is an assistant professor in the Department of History. Her work explores early US engagement with foreign communities and cultures and the relationship between ordinary people and formal politics. Her current project demonstrates that the independence movements in Brazil and Spanish America influenced popular understandings of race, revolution, and republicanism in the early United States. Other publications have examined US merchants in insurgent Brazil, Iroquois diplomacy during the US Revolution, and antislavery sentiment in the Upper South. Fitz was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Pennsylvania’s McNeil Center for Early American Studies.