Name: Zachary Klaus Cho 

Year in program: 4 

ABD Y/N: Y

Primary supervisor: Dr. David Wheat  

Major field: Colonial Latin America/Early Modern Europe 

Minor fields: Early America, Atlantic Slavery 

Link to your personal page or profile: https://michiganstate.academia.edu/ZacharyCho  

I am an early modernist broadly interested in the social and cultural histories of the early American Southeast and the Spanish circum-Caribbean. My prospective dissertation intends to analyze configurations of race and slavery in Spanish Florida (La Florida) from the mid-16^th to the onset of the 18^th century. In doing so, I intend to address how factors such as Florida’s status as a nascent/fringe colonial outpost, indigenous regimes of bondage, and the presence of rival European empires in the English and French influenced ideas on race and slavery.  

Prior to Michigan State, I received my MA in European and Russian Studies from Yale University in 2022. I graduated cum laude from Haverford College in 2020, majoring in History with high departmental honors. My BA and MA theses both covered topics on Iberian history.