Bio

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)

Publications

• The Quotidian State: Nightly Watches and Police Practice in the Early Republic Journal of the Early Republic 44 2 (2024), Nicole Breault.

Presentations

• Policing Infection: Boston’s Watch and the Containment of Smallpox, 1764-1775 (2024), Volume Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, San Francisco, CA, Nicole Breault.
• “As You Shall Judge Best”: Discretion, Legal Knowledge, and Watchkeeping in Eighteenth-Century Boston (2023), Volume Annual Meeting of the American Society for Legal History, Philadelphia, PA, Nicole Breault.

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