Eva Landsberg

Eva Landsberg is a PhD candidate studying Early America and the early modern Atlantic world. Her research interests include comparative colonialism and slavery, Atlantic trade and interconnection, political economy, and digital history. Her dissertation, tentatively entitled “The Politics of Sugar: Caribbean Roots of the American Revolution,” explores how trade in sugar and its byproducts transformed the political landscape of British America in the 18^th century. From Boston to Barbados to London, it traces a decades-long pattern of conflict between Northern merchants and British plantation owners, to argue that inter-colonial competition was central to shaping political consciousness in the Revolutionary era.

 

For the 2024-25 academic year, Eva will be the Program in Early American Economy and Society (PEAES) Dissertation Fellow at the Library Company of Philadelphia. Her work has previously been supported by the British Library’s Eccles Centre, the New England Regional Fellowship Consortium, the Massachusetts Historical Society, the American Antiquarian Society, the Florida Atlantic University-Huntington Library Weiner Research Fellowship, and the Beinecke Library. Her digital history work, including an ongoing social network analysis of North American and Caribbean news circulation, has been supported by a grant from the Yale Digital Humanities Lab.

 

Eva is Writing Fellow at the Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning, the co-coordinator of Yale’s Graduate Affiliate Program, and a former organizer of the Yale Early American Historians Working Group. She is also the former co-captain of the Yale History Department softball team.  She holds a BA in History from Yale College, where her senior thesis was awarded the George Washington Egleston Prize for best senior essay on American history.

 

Please feel free to get in touch at eva.landsberg@yale.edu.