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Pair of Mugs, made in Jingdezhen, China, 1760–1780. One was a gift of Mary F. Failing, Vice Regent for Oregon, 1912 [W-664]; The other was acquired through the generosity of contributors to the Peter Family Collection, 2020 [W-2326], MVLA

Bring your lunch and learn about Library Fellow Jacqueline Beatty's research project, Engendering Orientalism in the Empire of Liberty

Using the resources at the George Washington Presidential Library, Beatty is researching the intersections of gender, Orientalism, and early American national identity.

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Jacqueline Beatty is Associate Professor of History at York College of Pennsylvania, where she teaches courses in early American history, women’s and gender history, and public history. 

She has published several articles and chapters, and is the author of In Dependence: Women and the Patriarchal State in Revolutionary America (NYU, 2023). At Mount Vernon, she will conduct research on the intersections of gender, Orientalism, and early American national identity.