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Lauren Cain

History Ph.D. student Lauren Cain

Ph.D. Candidate, History

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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

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