Alexandra Garrett

Historian

Dr. Alexandra Garrett is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Saint Michael’s College. She is a historian of early America, women, gender, and slavery. She is currently working on a microhistory that analyzes the life of Kate McCall (1766-1828), a wealthy, never-married, and Enlightenment-educated white woman who lived and controlled enslaved people in the Northern Neck region of Virginia.

M.A., Ph.D. University of Virginia
B.A. St. Olaf College