Jasmin Bath

PhD Candidate
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Jasmin Bath

Jasmin Bath is a doctoral candidate in U.S. History at Clare College, and currently the Procter Fellow at Princeton University for the 2023-2024 academic year. Her research looks at the economic, social and cultural history of single mothers in New York City between 1827 and 1857.


Prior to her doctoral studies, Jasmin completed her MPhil at Cambridge, funded by the Cambridge Trust and Clare College, under the supervision of Dr. Sarah Pearsall. Before this, Jasmin gained her First Class BA (Hons) degree in history from Queen Mary University of London. Her PhD is funded by the AHRC and Clare College. She is also the first Badger Scholar, a scholarship named in honour of historian Professor Anthony Badger.

  • Nineteenth-Century U.S. History
  • History of Capitalism
  • Women's History
  • Gender History
  • Urban History
  • The Cultural History of Politics.
  • The history of cultural economies.

I am not currently taking any students for the academic year 2023-24. 

  • Cambridge Cultural History Workshop. 2020: Abraham Lincoln and the Election of 1860
  • Irish Association of American Studies, 2019: ‘Honesty is the best policy’: Demagogue Douglas & the Election of 1860
  • British American Nineteenth Century Historians PGR and ECR Workshop, 2019: Honest Abe, Demagogue Douglas & the Election of 1860

Contact

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Address

Old Court

Clare College 

Trinity Lane 

CB2 1TL

Email
jtb43@cam.ac.uk
Links

Key publications

  • [Book Review] Cavaliers and Economists: Global Capitalism and the Development of Southern Literature 1820-1860 by Katharine A. Burnett, Civil War History, (September 2020)

Other publications

  • Fighting back against Trump's lies is the only way to prevent a comeback, The Washington Post, November 2020.
  • How the Mueller report could end the Trump presidency without impeachment, The Washington Post, May 2019.