Nora Williams,

I am a fourth-year PhD candidate in the Department of History at Duke. I also am pursuing a graduate certificate in the Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies Department. My research explores the nineteenth century U.S. South spanning Antebellum slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction era. Broadly, I am interested in studying issues of gender, race, class, sexuality, and violence in the nineteenth century U.S. Specifically, my dissertation explores women's experiences of sexual violation through a spatial analysis. I seek to uncover how trauma becomes a "spatial haunting" that lingers within the spaces where violence occurred and is not solely confined to the bodily experience of trauma. 


Educational Background
Bachelor of Arts, History, Magna cum laude
Wofford College, 2021 

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