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Dr Connie Thomas

Connie is an Associate Lecturer (Teaching) in United States History. She is a legal and political historian of US immigration policy, with a particular focus on the development of state and national policymaking in the eighteenth and nineteenth century United States. Her research considers how migration debates were shaped by wider conflicts on citizenship, national identity, partisanship, and federalism. Connie is also interested in the intersection of state and national institutions, policymakers, and the public in early American political culture. 

Publications

Public Engagement

Alongside her historical research, Connie has contributed work on contemporary US political culture to The Panorama and U.S. Studies Online. Connie strives to widen participation in higher education among women and other traditionally underrepresented groups. She has both organised and participated a range of events, seminar series, and workshops which encourage women to continue the study of history in higher education while providing support for those already in the field. She has also collaborated in a range of secondary school teaching packs for students and teachers with the British Association of American Studies (BAAS) and the association of British American Nineteenth Century Historians (BrANCH). 

Teaching

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Email: connie.thomas@ucl.ac.uk

Bluesky: @conniethomas.bsky.social
Office: 311, 26 Gordon Square
Student support & feedback hours: Available by appointment.

Student support & feedback hours are an opportunity for students to chat with their module tutors about their ideas, any support they might need with the module, and to go through feedback from their assessments. 

External roles

  • Communications Officer, British American Nineteenth Century Historians
  • Associate Fellow, Royal Historical Society 

Qualifications

PhD Queen Mary University of London, 2024