Alanna Loucks is an Independent Scholar who recently completed her PhD, "A Community of Individuals: Household Connections in the Making of Montréal, 1642-1763." My dissertation examined the networks created by four French households to explore how individual relations and interactions contributed to Montréal’s position as a hub between North American and Atlantic Worlds. Building on my doctoral work and continuing my focus on networks, my new project explores the growth of geospatial knowledge surrounding the Great Lakes region, and its relationship to the official maps that were produced in Europe (17th-18th cen).
