Shealynn Hendry

Shea Hendry is a PhD candidate in American History at Hughes Hall, researching loyalist exiles, family correspondence networks, and national belonging. Her dissertation examines families divided between Britain and the United States in the decades after American independence who experienced the shifting boundaries of citizenship and subjecthood within their own households. Her research is generously funded by a Gates Cambridge Scholarship under the supervision of Dr. Nick Guyatt.



She previously completed her MA in History and MS in Library Science at Simmons University. She completed her BA in History and Classical Humanities from Miami University, where she was the two-time recipient of the Bishop-Elliott Award for Excellence in Classical Scholarship and the Mary Eleanor Brandon Lincoln Essay Prize. Prior to beginning her PhD, she worked as a Collections Assistant for the John G. Wolbach Library within the Harvard & Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and for Historic New England.