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Madison Heslop is a doctoral candidate at the University of Washington. Her research examines the connected histories of Seattle and Vancouver, British Columbia. Into the 1930s, many of Seattle and Vancouver’s residents were coastal people whose lives were entwined with the water. United by the Salish Sea, the relationships of these cities to one another and to the Pacific in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries are best observed at the site of the urban waterfront.

Madison’s next project will investigate the history of mobile populations and police practices in urban settings with a comparative project examining vagrancy across North American cities.

Education

 

2015-2022

University of Washington
PhD, History

2014-2015

University of Edinburgh
MSc, American History

2010-2014

Purdue University
BA (Honors), American Studies and History
Minors in Anthropology, Spanish

Honors

 

2021

John and Mary Ann Mangels Endowed Fellowship for Public History

Mellon Collaborative Summer Fellowship for Public Projects in the Humanities

2020

Digital History Summer Fellowship, University of Washington Department of History

Newberry Library Short-Term Fellowship

2019

Digital History Summer Fellowship, University of Washington Department of History

2018

Fulbright Student Grant (-2019)

John and Mary Ann Mangels Endowed Fellowship for Public History

2017

Digital Humanities Summer Institute Fellowship, University of Washington Simpson Center for the Humanities

Western History Association Graduate Student Prize

2015

Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest Recruitment Fellowship

2014

Phi Kappa Phi Love of Learning Award

Purdue University College of Liberal Arts Honors Program Outstanding Senior Award

Purdue University American Studies Outstanding Senior Award

Purdue University Department of History Outstanding Senior Award

2012

Phi Beta Kappa

Stover Undergraduate Scholarship

2010

Trustees Scholarship, Purdue University (-2014)

Teaching

 

2021

University of Washington
Predoctoral Instructor

Interdisciplinary Writing in the Social Sciences

2020

University of Washington
Predoctoral Instructor

Interdisciplinary Writing in the Social Sciences
Intermediate Interdisciplinary Writing in the Social Sciences

2019

University of Washington
Predoctoral Instructor

History of Washington and the Pacific Northwest

2018

University of Washington
Reader/Grader
Inconvenient Indians and the American Problem: American Indian History since 1815

2017

University of Washington
Teaching Assistant
European History and Film from the 1890s to the Present
History of Washington and the Pacific Northwest
Peoples of the United States

2016

University of Washington
Teaching Assistant

Race and American History

Digital

 

2021

Co-Author, “Entanglements: Mapping the History of Asian Migration onto Coast Salish Lands”

Research Coordinator, Washington Racial Restrictive Covenants Project

2020

A Peoples’ Landscape: Racism and Resistance at UW,” contributing author, researcher, and organizer with People’s History Group

2019

Community Engagement Student Assistant, University of Washington Department of History (-2020)

Rogues: Vancouver’s Contested Waterfront, 1897-1914,” University of Washington Summer Digital History Summer Fellow (-2020)

2018

Mangels Endowed Research Fellow, University of Washington Press

2017

US History Scene, Bancroft Library Summer Digital History Fellow

2016

Digital Humanities Summer Institute, Victoria, BC
American Society for Environmental History Summer Internship