Jocelyn Wills

Associate Professor
History

Location: 525s Whitehead Hall
Phone: 718.951.5000 x2812
Fax: 718.951.4504
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A Canadian by birth, Jocelyn Wills zig-zagged her way to New York from Vancouver, British Columbia, via Texas, Minnesota and the many dotted roads that connect the contiguous United States with Canada and Mexico. Along the way, she encountered both dazzling diversity and disturbing disparities. This collision of the American promise with everyday reality informs all of her research and teaching interests, which include: the cultural history of capitalism; narratives of success, failure and self-making; and the incorporation and commodification of American life. Wills is completing two book manuscripts: one, a microhistory of 19th-century economic and social strivers; the other, on the expansion and seduction of global surveillance. Her current research focuses on American boom-and-bust, and the experiences of workers, consumers, and small business operators in post-Civil War Brooklyn.

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