Lauren Poor
Lecturer in History and Director, Office of the Core
Office Hours (Spring 2021)
Virtual Office Hours via Teams (Link Provided):
Tuesdays & Wednesdays 9:30am-11:00am or by appointment.
E-mail: lauren_poor@baylor.edu (This is the most reliable way to contact me.)
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).