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Caylin Carbonell (she/her) is a historian of gender, race, and power in colonial North America. Her research focuses on the diverse households and families of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century New England. Working with a vast yet fragmentary archive, Dr. Carbonell peers in on households and their daily goings-on at a granular level to examine the intimate contestations and collaborations between free and unfree people who lived and worked together. Her book project reveals how unfree household members—African, Indigenous, and European—whose representation is only marginal in colonial sources, played key roles in shaping the society and economy of which they were a part.

She teaches early American history, from the late fifteenth through the early nineteenth centuries. In her courses, Dr. Carbonell highlights inclusive, complex, and place-based stories of African, Indigenous, and European people across Vast Early America. She regularly brings primary sources—including manuscript sources, many from her own research—into the classroom. Leading students in interactive tutorials known as “history labs,” Dr. Carbonell introduces students to the historian’s craft and teaches them to transcribe, analyze, and write about primary sources. She is also enthusiastic about hands-on learning and public history, incorporating field trips and museum visits into courses whenever possible.