DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY

Interests

Geographic Field(s):  Modern European History: France and Global Francophonie; American History, Before 1900;

Thematic Field(s):  War and Empire in History; Gender and Sexuality History;

Principal Research Interest(s):  Early America, Native America, Gender and Sexuality

Biography

Michaela Kleber (Ph.D., William & Mary, 2020) is a historian of early America, with a particular focus on Native America, French empire, and gender and sexuality. Her current work centers on the Illinois in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and the French who colonized among them. Her project recovers the gender and sexuality structures of indigenous Illinois society in order to explain how these structures guided French colonization.