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Alyssa Penick
Doctoral Fellow
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Alyssa Penick is a Ph.D. candidate in history at the University of Michigan and a 2018 doctoral fellow with the Berkley Center's Religious Freedom Research Project. She has won several teaching awards at the University of Michigan and received fellowships from the Fred W. Smith National Library for the Study of George Washington and Rackham Graduate School to support her research. Her dissertation, entitled "The Fate of the Parish: Religion and Government in the Chesapeake, 1720-1820," is a blend of religious, legal, and social history that offers a new perspective on the relationship between church and state and the meaning of religious freedom during the era of the American founding. Penick received her B.A. in history with a religion minor from Dartmouth College and earned an M.A. in history from the University of Michigan.
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