Riley K. Sutherland

Riley K. Sutherland began a U.S. History Ph.D. at Harvard in the Autumn of 2023, after earning a B.A. in History, American Studies, and Memory (2022) and a M.A. in U.S. History (2023) from the University of South Carolina, Columbia. She is interested in women's history, memory, trauma, archival power, material culture, and state-building in the nineteenth-century United States, especially as these themes relate to military women and Revolutionary War widow pensions.