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