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Gillian MacDonald is a digital historian and early modern European historian specializing in the late-seventeenth century British Isles and the Atlantic World. Her research interests focus on the movement of people, environmental impacts, and the political regulation of borders. She is particularly concerned with how borders functioned during times of political upheaval. MacDonald's current book project investigates the role of the Irish Sea and the North Channel in the late seventeenth-century Revolution in Scotland, exploring the complex interplay between geography and social dynamics during this period. She serves as the Director of LEADR, the Lab for Education Advancement Digital Research, at Michigan State University, where she combines her expertise in history with digital methodologies to advance research and education in the humanities.
Department of Psychology