Dr. Gina G. Bennett

Gina G. Bennett is the Assistant Professor of Global Studies and Coordinator of Humanities at Coker University in Hartsville, South Carolina. She earned a doctoral degree from the University of Texas at Arlington in 2020 and specializes in Atlantic History, empire, gender, migration, labor, and economies in the Transatlantic World. Her research, teaching, and publications address the role of women investors, manufacturers, and migrators who made their way to Panama for The Company of Scotland Trading to Africa and the Indies in the 1690s when Scottish merchants led an attempt to establish a colony for trade in the Atlantic. Some of these connections were particularly impactful to Charleston. She presents her research at conferences across the United States, the UK, and the Netherlands. Gina was recently interviewed for an episode on her research with BBC Radio Scotland. She serves as book review editor of World History Connected, a peer reviewed history journal. Future publications that are forthcoming include “Emerging from Failure: Revealing Early Modern Women’s Relationships to Empire through the Darien Documents” in the edited collection, European Colonial Failures, c. 1560-1800: Early Modern Polities, Overseas Interests, and Empire Building to be published by Amsterdam University Press.