Lauren Cain
Research Expertise
United States
Lauren Cain is a Ph.D. candidate in US history. Her dissertation investigates the development and consequences of early twentieth-century immigration restrictions and their relationship to gender and the First World War. She also completed a certificate in Museum Scholarship and Material Culture in 2023 under Dr. Mary Sies in American Studies. When not researching, Lauren advocates for UMD graduate students through her roles as a graduate student representative to the Graduate School Dean's Council and the history department graduate student representative to the Dean of Arts & Humanities Graduate Advisory Board.
Teaching Assistantships
Pocketbook Politics: A History of American Buying and Selling - Spring 2022
History of Sexuality in America - Fall 2021
Love, Labor, and Citizenship: History of Women in the U.S. since 1880 (Zoom) - Spring 2021
Fighting Slavery (Zoom) - Fall 2020