Caitlin Annette Fitz

Professor Fitz is a historian of early America, in a broad and hemispheric sense. Her work explores early U.S. engagement with foreign communities and cultures, as well as the relationship between ordinary people and formal politics. Her first book, Our Sister Republics: The United States in an Age of American Revolutions, shows how Latin America’s independence wars shaped popular understandings of race, revolution, and republicanism in the United States. Prof. Fitz has also written about the hemispheric dimensions of the War of 1812, U.S. citizens in insurgent Brazil, Iroquois communities during the U.S. revolution, and antislavery activists in Tennessee.