Professor of History & Assistant Director of the Center for Excellence in Learning, Teaching, Scholarship, and Service
About
Maria Alessandra Bollettino is an associate professor of history at Framingham State University in Framingham, Massachusetts, where she teaches courses on the history of early America, the Caribbean, and race, slavery, and abolition in the Atlantic world. Her colleagues awarded her the Distinguished Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2014 and the Beacon Award in recognition of her “noteworthy contributions and outstanding efforts that have assisted in advancing Inclusive Excellence” in 2017.
Current Work:
Dr. Bollettino's book manuscript, “Slavery, War, and Britain’s Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Empire” examines the participation of enslaved and free blacks in the imperial wars Britain waged against France and Spain over the course of the eighteenth century and the ways in which blacks’ wartime actions influenced British conceptions of race, slavery, and imperial identity. Her article, “‘Of equal or of more Service’: Black Soldiers and the British Empire in the Mid-Eighteenth-Century Caribbean” appeared in Slavery & Abolition in 2017.
She has presented her work in several academic forums, among them conferences sponsored by the Association for Caribbean Historians, the McNeil Center for Early American Studies, the North American Conference on British Studies, and the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture. She has been the recipient of numerous research fellowships, including an NEH Long-Term Fellowship at the American Antiquarian Society in Worcester, Massachusetts.
Research Area Keyword(s):
Race, slavery, warfare, empire, Atlantic world
