Helena
Yoo Roth
2022-2023 David Center for the American Revolution Predoctoral Fellow
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Helena Yoo Roth (David Center for the American Revolution Predoctoral Fellowship) is a Ph.D. Candidate in History at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Her dissertation is titled "American Timelines: Imperial Communications, Colonial Time-Consciousness, and the Coming of the American Revolution." She examines how the rhythms and structures of eighteenth-century transatlantic communications shaped political consciousness and action in the decades before the American Revolution. She received her B.A. in American Studies from Columbia University.

Research Project: "American Timelines: Imperial Communications, Colonial Time-Consciousness, and the Coming of the American Revolution"