Dr. Francesca Langer

 

Ph.D. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 

M.A University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 

B.A. Case Western Reserve University

 

 

Francesca Langer is a political and intellectual historian of the Early Modern Atlantic World with a focus on North America, South America, and the Caribbean. Her research interests include early American political economy, citizenship and the public sphere, art history, print culture, mass media, and the history of science and technology. Her current project, Creole Classicism: European and Indigenous Antiquities in the Early American Political Imagination examines the role of Neoclassical political aesthetics, including Greco-Roman and Native American iconography, in the U.S. and Latin American independence movements (1776-1833), with a focus on civic republicanism, creole patriotism, pan-Americanism, and the emergence of the nation-state.