Sarah Pearsall

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]

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

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

  • 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

  1. "Sarah Pearsall". Johns Hopkins University. July 20, 2021. Retrieved September 18, 2022.
  2. 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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