Carla Gerona

Assistant Professor

(PhD, Johns Hopkins University, 1998) specializes in Early American, Atlantic, and Borderlands history. Her first book, Night Journeys: The Power of Dreams in Transatlantic Quaker Culture (University of Virginia Press, 2004), traced the ways in which an innovative group that included leading missionaries, pacifists, abolitionists, and early feminists interpreted their dreams to shape their world. Gerona is currently working on "More than Six Flags: An Ethnohistory of an East Texas Place from the Caddos to the Texians," which is a study of the multiethnic borderland around Nacogdoches before Texas's annexation to the United States. She draws on interdisciplinary methods as well as Spanish, French, English, and Native American source materials to explore the ways in which the different people interacted and competed with each other on t his East Texas crossroads. Gerona has received numerous research awards for her work, including a National Endowment for the Humanities Faculty Fellowship and a Newberry Library Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship.

Contact Information: D. M. Smith Building
Phone: 404.385.3182
E-mail: carla.gerona@iac.gatech.edu