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About
ALMA — The Alma College Diversity and Inclusion Office is expanding its offerings to celebrate Native American Heritage Month (NAHM) in November. For the second consecutive year, the college is
Faculty
Kristin A. Olbertson is a professor of history. Her career at Alma began in 2006. Her research focuses on colonial courts, particularly in matters of speech and gender. She is currently at work on a project investigating how women in eighteenth-century New England established credibility when testifying and what types of knowledge they provided in both civil and criminal cases.
Educational Background:
Signature Courses:
Constitutional History; Approaches to Michigan History.
U.S. history through the Reconstruction era and U.S. legal, constitutional and women’s history.
Olbertson, K. (2022). The Dreadful Word: Speech Crime and Polite Gentlemen in Massachusetts, 1690–1776 (Studies in Legal History). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009106535
Olbertson, K. (2013). Religion and Rights in Nineteenth-Century American Law: Reflections on the Work of Elizabeth B. Clark. American Journal of Legal History, 53(1), 121–130. https://doi.org/10.1093/ajlh/53.1.121