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Haley Bowen (Ph.D., University of Michigan, 2023) is a historian specializing in the early modern French empire, with particular research interests in state-building, gender, and religious culture. Her current book project, provisionally titled 'Breaching Cloister: Laywomen, Convents, and the State in the Early Modern French Empire', explores the roles of laywomen in Paris, New France, and Martinique as they engaged with monastic institutions that served as ambiguous sites of incarceration and retreat. Bowen's scholarly contributions have been supported by grants from various prestigious organizations, including the Doris G. Quinn Foundation, the George Lurcy Charitable Educational Trust, the Rackham Graduate School Institute for the Humanities at the University of Michigan, the Society for French Historical Studies, the Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism at the University of Notre Dame, the Meeter Center at Calvin College, and the Newberry Library in Chicago. She graduated from Harvard College in 2014 with an A.B. degree in History and Literature and was an affiliated visiting researcher at the Centre des recherches historiques (CRH) at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris from 2019 to 2021.
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