Maura Capps

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Maura Capps is a PhD candidate at the University of Chicago, focusing primarily on the environmental and agricultural history of Britain and the British Empire in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. As a 2013–2014 International Dissertation Research Fellowship recipient, Capps has conducted research in the United Kingdom, Australia, and South Africa and is currently working on her dissertation “All Flesh Is Grass: Cultivation as Conservation in the Sown Grasslands of the British Empire, 1780–1850.”

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Weekends in the Clover: Imagining Colonial New South Wales

by Maura Capps

Maura Capps is a 2013 International Dissertation Research Fellowship recipient and a graduate student at the University of Chicago. In this Research Snapshot, she examines how Enlightenment-era high husbandry, with its arsenal of sown grasses, traveled throughout Britain’s settler empire. The Research Snapshots series is an initiative aimed at highlighting important and innovative research by SSRC fellows who are currently conducting or who have recently returned from doing international research.

September 22, 2014