Lauren Poor

Specialties

• Early Modern/Modern Britain
• History of Refugees, Immigrants, and Migration and the State
• Early America/Atlantic World (1450-1850)
• U.S. Immigration History
• History of Religious Toleration

Education

• B.A., Tufts University
• M.A., Indiana University, Bloomington
• Ph.D., Indiana University, Bloomington

Academic Interests and Research

I am a historian of early modern Britain and the British Atlantic World with a particular interest in transnational issues, including immigration, xenophobia, religious toleration, and state formation and identity. My research is driven by a desire to understand how moral perceptions becomes effective in action, and I explore what happens when moral purposes motivate political choices and when actors, in turn, declare themselves compelled by moral imperatives. My current project examines the late seventeenth and early eighteenth-century culture and politics of refugee relief. Through a comparative study of the English reception of Huguenot, Irish, Palatine and Salzburg refugees, I trace the development of England as a refugee nation, and the subsequent utilization of the Atlantic as a corrective to England’s refugee "problem".

Works in Progress

Book manuscript from dissertation: "Refugee Nation: The Origins of Practicing English Toleration, 1680-1732"

Selected Professional Awards/ Grants and/or Fellowships

• Baylor University’s Outstanding Faculty Award in the Area of Teaching in the College of Arts & Sciences (2019)

• Fundamentals of Data Research Fellowship, Baylor University (Summer 2019)

• Nomination, Baylor University’s Outstanding Faculty Award in the Area of Teaching, Dept. of History (2017)

• Outstanding Professor Award, Baylor Athletics, Baylor University (2016-2017)

• Outstanding Professor Award, Baylor Athletics, Baylor University (2015-2016)

• Outstanding Professor Award, Baylor Athletics, Baylor University (2014-2015)

• W.M. Keck Foundation Fellowship, Huntington Library, San Marino, CA (2014)

• W.M. Keck Foundation Fellowship, Huntington Library, San Marino, CA (2014)

• College Arts and Humanities Institute Research Award, Indiana University (2014)

• Dissertation Fellowship, Center for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Indiana University (2013-2014)

• NACBS-Huntington Library Fellowship, North American Conference on British Studies (2013-2014)

• Future Faculty Teaching Fellowship, Indiana University Graduate School (2012-2013)

• Frederick W. and Mildred C. Stoler Research Fellowship, Indiana University (2013)

• Center for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Indiana University, Travel Grant (2013)

• Ruth Lilly Research Fellowship, Indiana University (2012)

• Leo Solt Dissertation Fellowship, Indiana University (2012)

• Junior Research Fellow, History Learning Project, Indiana University (2008- 2009)

Courses at Baylor

• HIS 1300: The United States in Global Perspective: A Nation of Immigrants

• HIS 1305: World History to 1500

• HIS 1307: World History from 1500

• HIS 2365: United States History to 1877

• HIS 2366: United States History from 1877

• HIS 4341: Tudor-Stuart Britain

• HIS 4345: Britain in the Nineteenth Century

• HON 3101: Advanced Readings and Research

• HON 4V87: Honors Thesis

• BIC 1314: World Cultures I: Roots of Culture

• BIC 2344: World Cultures IV: The United States in the World

Honors Thesis Advisor

Honors Thesis Advisor for Sarah Lanier (2021): Refugee Integration: How Cooperation on a Local and National Level Bolster United State Integration Experiences. To be defended April 2021.

Honor Thesis Advisor for Anabel Burke (2017): Refugees in Times of Reelection: An Analysis of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman’s Responses to Jewish Refugees During and Following World War II. Defended and awarded rank of “Outstanding” (reserved for top 5% of theses).