I am an historian of early American legal and social history with research interests in policing, urban governance, institutions, gender, and material culture.

• Ph D in History , University of Connecticut (2022)

• When Did the Police Become a “Machine”? The Panorama (2024), Nicole Breault.
• The Quotidian State: Nightly Watches and Police Practice in the Early Republic Journal of the Early Republic 44 2 (2024), Nicole Breault.

• The Work of Boston's Watch (2025), Volume Omohundro Institute at William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA, Nicole Breault.
• “Why Policing? Boston's Night Watch and the Development of Early American Carceral History" (2025), Volume New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, Nicole Breault.
• ““A General Battle Ensued”: Local Authority and Military Violence in Revolutionary Boston” (2025), Volume American Historical Association, New York City , Nicole Breault.
• ““As the Law Directs”: Policing and Legal Literacy in Eighteenth-Century Boston” (2024), Volume University of Bristol Law School, Bristol, UK, Nicole Breault.
• “According to your Discretion”: Policing, Labor, and Legal Knowledge in Eighteenth-Century Boston (2024), Volume Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, MA, Nicole Breault.

• William Nelson Cromwell Foundation Fellowship for Early Career Scholars, "Set the Watch: Policing and Governance in Early America"
• UTEP-EPCC Humanities Collaborative Faculty Fellowship, "Set the Watch: Policing and Governance in Early America"
• Massachusetts Historical Society Short-term Fellowship, "Set the Watch: Policing and Governance in Revolutionary Boston"