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Alison Games

Title

Professor
Dorothy M. Brown Distinguished Professor of History; Acting Director of Doctoral Studies

Department

Department of History
General profile

Phone

202-687-5751

Location

610B ICC

Office hours

W 2-4

Bio

Alison Games is the Dorothy M. Brown Distinguished Professor of History. She is the convener of the Early Modern Global History Seminar and the director of the Georgetown Institute for Global History. She has taught at Georgetown since 1995; before she came to Georgetown, she taught for three years at Grinnell College in Iowa. Games writes on a variety of topics related to the history of the early modern world. Her most recent book is Witchcraft in Early North America (2010). Games teaches courses on a variety of topics related to early America, the Atlantic world, and European expansion and global interaction. Undergraduate courses include the Atlantic World, Witches and Witchcraft, Colonial America, American Utopias, Slaves and Captives, and the Age of the American Revolution. Her graduate courses include the core colloquium for first-year students, Global Encounters, the transregional research seminar, and readings classes in early American and Atlantic history.

Education

  • Ph.D. (1992) University of Pennsylvania, History
  • A.B. (1985) Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges, History
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