Michael Wayne

Michael Wayne is a Ph.D. student in the Department of History. He studies migrations, resettlements, and exiles in the early modern (~1550–1720) Atlantic. He is interested in problems of mobility and space in Europe itself and in the broader imperial world. His research relates projects of resettlement to the developing labor régimes of the early English, French, and Dutch empires. 

 

Before coming to Yale, Michael earned his B.A. with honors in history and political science at the University of Chicago. He wrote his undergraduate thesis on the Transplantation of Ireland (1649-1659) in relation to the emerging imperial logic of the English Protectorate. Michael hails from St. Louis, Missouri, and enjoys journaling, long-distance running, and the music of Simon & Garfunkel.