Lauren Cain
Research Expertise
United States
Lauren Cain is a Ph.D. candidate in US history. Her dissertation on First World War foreign war brides investigates the development and consequences of early twentieth-century immigration restrictions through the lens of military welfare history. She also completed a certificate in Museum Scholarship and Material Culture in 2023 under Dr. Mary Sies in American Studies. Her work has been supported by the UMD History Department, UMD Graduate School, Immigrationa and Ethnic History Society, and the University of Minnesota Libraries.
She is currently a Mellon Foundation Predoctoral Awardee at the Center for Women's History at the New York Historical.
Lauren advocated for UMD graduate students through her former 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.
Instructorships
• "War and Society" (Fall 2025)
• "Beyond Rosie and Just as Riveting: Women and War in American History" (Spring 2024)
Teahing Assistantships
• Interpreting American History: From 1865 to the Present (Spring 2025)
• 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 (Spring 2021)
• Fighting Slavery (Fall 2020)