About the Presenter
Ethan Gonzales is a Ph.D. candidate in History at the University of Virginia. He is interested in the ways in which the federal government mobilized information to advance national interests in the North American interior and in Europe during the 1790s.
His research will be published in a forthcoming article in the Journal of the Early Republic titled, “Thomas Jefferson’s Information War and the Early American State in Europe, 1784-1793.”
Originally from southeast Michigan, Gonzales served as a sergeant in the active-duty Army before pursuing a career in academia.