Daniel T Howlett

Daniel T Howlett

Daniel T Howlett

Graduate Teaching Assistant

U.S. History: Early America, Disability History, Religious History, Digital History

Dan Howlett is a PhD candidate studying early American religion and disability between the 1660s and 1820s.  His dissertation focuses on morality and bodies as religious movements and the Enlightenment caused shifts in intellectual and moral thought.  He also works on a variety of digital projects including a network analysis of the Salem Witch Trials and a data-driven project on New England gravestones.  In his spare time he moderates r/AskHistorians, a text-based Q&A forum with 1.9 million subscribers, and coaches fencing at George Washington University.

He previously worked as a GRA and Digital History Fellow at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media.  There, he worked on projects including World History Commons, DataScribe, and Death by Numbers. 

In 2017 he graduated from The George Washington University with a B.A. in History and Political Science before earning his M.A. in History from George Mason University in 2019.