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Education

MA      Rice University, History                            August 2023

Comprehensive Exam Committee: Drs. James Sidbury, W. Caleb McDaniel, and Lora Wildenthal
Exam Fields: Early America, Nineteenth-Century U.S., and Gender and Empire.

MA      Western Washington University, History   June 2020

Thesis: “Enslaved Midwives in the Long Eighteenth Century: Slavery, Reproduction, and Creolization Along the Chesapeake”
Advisor: Dr. Jared R. Hardesty

BA       Western Washington University, History    June 2018

Minored in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Honors and Awards

Mary Hayes Ewing Prize for the Best
Article in Southern History                Spring 2025
Rice University

Charlotte W. Newcombe Dissertation
Fellowship Finalist                             Spring 2025
Charlotte W. Newcombe Foundation

Jacob M. Price Fellowship                                       Spring 2024
William L. Clements Library, Ann Arbor, MI

Mellon Research Fellowship                                   Spring 2024
Virginia Museum of History and Culture,
Richmond, VA

Mayers Research Fellowship                                  Spring 2024
The Huntington Library, San Marino, CA

Russell Pitman Graduate Fellowship                    Fall 2023
Rice University, History Department

Best Paper by a Graduate Student                         Spring 2023
The Virginia Forum

Wagoner Foreign Study Scholarship                     Winter 2022
Rice University, Graduate and
Postdoctoral Studies

Outstanding Graduate Student                              Spring 2020
Western Washington University,
History Department

Research Travel Grant                                             Spring 2019
Western Washington University, Research
and Sponsored Programs

Bernard Boylan Scholarship                                   Fall 2018
Western Washington University,
History Department

Publications

Lampert, E.A. “By Girls and For Girls: Women’s Community and Racialized Performance in the Early Years of Rice Institute.” Southwestern Historical Quarterly 128, no. 3 (2025): 240–261.

Papers in Review

Lampert, E.A., “A Community Divided: Reenslavement and the Accomack County Overseers of the Poor, 1820–1845,” Submitted to the Virginia Magazine of History and Culture.

Working Papers

Lampert, E.A., “‘Glover, An Irish Papist’: Local Pressures, Atlantic Tensions, and the Trial of Boston’s Final Witch.”

Lampert, E.A., “‘The Breeding System’: Slave Breeding, British Abolition, and Virginia’s Shifting Atlantic Image.”

Conferences

Paper Presentation,
The Southern Historical Association                       November 2025

Paper Presentation,
Universities Studying Slavery: Second Foundings  October 2025

Paper Presentation,
The Virginia Forum                                                    March 2023

Paper Presentation,
Reframing Resistance                                          December 2022

Panel and Paper Presentation,
Texas A&M History Conference                        February 2022

Conference Assistant,
Naming the Natives                                                     April 2022

Conference Assistant,
The Sugarland 95                                                        September 2021

Invited Talks

Interviews and Podcasts

The Medicine, Race, and Democracy Lab May 2022

Conducted an interview alongside Kimberly Jones with Sasha Sumling, a Houston-based doula, for Rice’s Medicine, Race, and Democracy Lab Speaker Series, run by Dr. Lan A. Li.
https://www.mrdlab.org/maternal-health

The Medicine, Race, and Democracy Lab April 2022

Conducted a joint interview with Dr. Elizabeth O’Brien concerning reproductive health in Spanish colonial settings for Rice’s MRD Lab Speaker Series.
https://www.mrdlab.org/speaker-series

Guest Lectures, Talks, and Panels

“Deciphering Reader 2:
Academic Publishing for Grad Students” June 2025

“The Realities of Researching Abroad” May 2024

“Colonial Encounters and Monstrous Bodies” April 2021

“Black Superbodies and Gynecological
Interventions” April 2021

“Women’s Community and Racial Performance
at Rice Institute, 1912–1922” April 2020

“Gendered Histories and Antebellum
American Slavery” March 2019

Colloquia and Workshops

History ABD Writing Camp August 2025
History Department, Rice University

NHC Graduate Summer Residency          July 2025
National Humanities Center            

Navigating AI in Education                                         March 2025
Center for Teaching Excellence, Rice University

Indigenous History Reading Group                           Spring 2025
History Department, Rice University

History Grads Writing Group                                     Spring 2025
History Department, Rice University

Dissertation Writing Camp                                         June 2024
Center for Academic and Professional
Communication, Rice University

Historians Be Writing                                                Fall 2022
History Department, Rice University

Research Experience

Archival Research

• William L. Clements Library, Winter 2024
• The Huntington Library, Summer and Fall 2024
• Wilson Special Collections Library, UNC, Summer 2024
• The Rubenstein Library, Duke University, Summer 2024
• Virginia Museum of History and Culture, Summer 2024
• National Records of Scotland, UK, Winter 2024
• National Library of Scotland, UK, Winter 2024
• Cambridge University, UK, Fall 2023
• Senate House Library, London, UK, Fall 2023
• National Archives, UK, Fall 2023
• Bodleian Library, Oxford University, UK, Fall 2023
• McGovern Historical Research Center, Summer 2021
• Woodson Research Center, Fall 2020
• Library of Congress, Summer 2019
• Library of Virginia, Summer 2019
• Fred W. Smith National Library for the Study of George Washington, Summer 2019
• Jefferson Library at Monticello, Summer 2019
• Virginia Museum of History and Culture, Summer 2019

Racial Geography Project                             October 2021–June 2022
Rice University

Part of a larger, interdepartmental research collective working to understand underlying issues of race in Rice’s history.

Project: “‘By Girls and For Girls’: Female Community, White Femininity, and Racial Performance at Rice Institute, 1912–1922.”

Research Assistant                                          June 2021–August 2021

Completed archival research for Dr. Saori Funake, a professor at Tenshi College in Japan. She was researching the role of Japanese midwives in the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission, the records of which are housed in Houston at the McGovern Historical Research Center and the Texas Medical Center Library.

Teaching Experience

Instructor of Record                                        Spring 2025 
The Program in Writing and Communication,
Rice University

In Spring 2025 I taught “The Supernatural South: Haunted Plantations, Confederate Vampires, and Debates over Southern Memory,” a First-Year Writing Intensive Seminar (FWIS) designed to introduce and instruct first-year students in academic writing. This class uses the supernatural to interrogate both southern history and memory and ultimately asks students to think critically about the meaning behind southern ghosts. The course begins with reading Octavia Butler’s Kindred, then asks students to critically evaluate the Confederate Vampire trope in modern media. After this, we briefly discuss Confederate monuments, those tangible “ghosts” that mark the southern landscape, and connect this to our own ghosts at Rice. Finally, we read Tiya Miles’ Tales from the Haunted South; during this unit, students are asked to engage and interpret southern ghost tourism.

Moody Undergraduate Research Mentor      Fall 2024–Spring 2025
Undergraduate Programs and Special
Projects, Rice University

As a Moody Mentor, I worked to guide and advise undergraduate Moody Fellows at Rice University. These Fellows were completing a variety of humanities projects, in varying disciplines, in order to build their research portfolios and learn about the process of pursuing larger-scale research projects in the humanities. My duties as a mentor included meeting one-on-one and in small groups to check on progress and answer and advise on any questions concerning humanities research; this included setting research goals, how to work with and in an archive, and how to set and adhere to self-given deadlines.

Co-Instructor of Record                  Fall 2022
Rice University, History Department

I co-taught HIST 246, “The American Civil War Era,” with Dr. Fay Yarbrough. This was an undergraduate course that explored several aspects of the Civil War era, including soldier’s perspectives, southern femininity and masculinity, and memory and memorialization. I developed quizzes, exams, and essay prompts in consultation with Dr. Yarbrough, and selected class readings. I also regularly lead class discussions, lectured, and worked one on one with students.

Graduate Student Mentor                        August 2022 to Present
Rice University, History Department                                                  

Writing Consultant                                    August 2021 to June 2024
Center for Academic and Professional
Communication, Rice University

As a writing consultant, I conducted multiple one-on-one writing consultations every week, assisting undergraduate and graduate students alike with a variety of written work and oral presentations.

Graduate Teaching Assistant                   August 2020 to May 2021
Rice University, History Department

• “Modern Europe, 1500–1789,” Dr. Lora Wildenthal, Fall 2020
• “The Body in Global Histories of Medicine,” Dr. Lan A. Li, Spring 2021

Graduate Teaching Assistant             September 2018 to June 2020
Western Washington University,
History Department

• “History of the American West,” Dr. Jennifer Seltz, Fall 2018
• “Intro to Islamic Civilization,” Dr. Charles Anderson, Fall 2018
• “Intro to American History to 1865,” Dr. Jared Hardesty, Winter 2019
• “LGBT Experience in US History,” Dr. Josh Cerretti, Winter 2019 and Winter 2020
• “Intro to East Asian Civilization,” Dr. Emi Bushelle, Spring 2019 and Fall 2019
• “The Atlantic World,” Dr. Jared Hardesty, Spring 2019
• “African American History to 1865,” Dr. Peter Pihos, Fall 2019
• “African American History since 1865,” Dr. Peter Pihos, Winter 2020
• “Intro to American History to 1865,” Dr. Hunter Price, Spring 2020

Editorial and Digital Humanities Experience

Visiting Assistant Editor                                  May 2025 to Present
The Journal of Southern History

Editorial Assistant                                    September 2024 to Present
Dr. Samin Rashidbeigi

Digital Illustrator and Map Creator          Summer 2023
Archaeology Department, Rice University

I learned how to use Adobe Illustrator to recreate and update historical maps of Brazoria County, Texas, for publication. This work was part of an ongoing archaeological project concerning slavery in Brazoria County, led by Dr. Molly Morgan.

SHA Editorial Intern Summer 2022 Southern Historical Association 
Journal of Southern History                                                       

Editorial Assistant             August 2021 to May 2022
Journal of Southern History                                                      

Lead Publicist                         October 2021 to February 2022
The Rice Archaeological Project                                                                                                                      I worked closely with Dr. Molly Morgan to publicize a five-part video series on the ongoing archaeology project at Varner-Hogg Plantation State Historic Site, which emphasized the importance of a community-based archaeological approach and ethos. I created a detailed publicity plan, coordinating with various departments at Rice University, the staff at Varner-Hogg Plantation State Historic Site, prominent members of the Lake Jackson community, local libraries, museums, and churches, and the Texas State Historical Association. Finally, I designed various informational posters, flyers, and social media posts that promoted the project’s video series.

Podcast Production Host                                             April–May 2022
The Medicine, Race, and Democracy Lab

Professional Service

Senior Consultant
History Graduate Student Advisory Council, Rice University,
May 2025–Present

Graduate Committee Member
Southern Historical Association,
November 2024–Present

Graduate Student Constitution Sub-Committee Member
History Department, Rice University,
Summer 2023

Executive Board Member
Humanities Graduate Student Association, Rice University,
August 2021–May 2022

President
History Graduate Student Association,
Western Washington University,
August 2019–June 2020

Professional Affiliations

American Historical Association             
Student Associate

Omohundro Institute                                                                       
Student Associate

Southern Association of Women Historians                                   Student Associate

Southern Historical Association                                                      Student Associate

Languages

English: Native Language
French: Reading and Translation Proficiency