Wulfstan Scouller

Wulfstan Scouller is a PhD Candidate studying the social and economic history of King Philip’s War. Wulf’s work primarily examines New England’s seventeenth-century merchants, as speculators, developers, and adroit navigators of the world of Atlantic commerce. Merchants’ role in causing, organizing, and funding one of the most expansive and violent conflicts in early American history is the focus of his dissertation.

Wulf read History at Clare College, Cambridge, graduating in 2020. He was awarded the Mellon Fellowship, funding two years of graduate study at Yale, during which time he received his MA in History. He began the PhD program in History at Yale in August 2023. In 2025, he was awarded a Prize Teaching Fellowship for his work as a Teaching Fellow for the DeVane lectures, and will be teaching a seminar on New England history in Spring 2026.