Education

M.A., History, Boston College (2025)

B.A., History, The Pennsylvania State University (2023)

B.A., Psychology, The Pennsylvania State University (2023)

B.A., Film Production, The Pennsylvania State University (2023)

Biography

Sydney Rothka is a first year PhD student and Jefferson Scholars Foundation fellow interested in Early America and the Atlantic World. Her Master's thesis, completed at Boston College and entitled River of the People: The Middle Atlantic in the 16th and 17th Centuries, analyzes Indigenous-colonial relations in Lenapehoking (the greater Delaware River Valley region). 

Courses

Boston College

HIST 1078: Globalization II (Graduate Teaching Assistant under Emily Cole, Spring 2025).

HIST 1077: Globalization I (Graduate Teaching Assistant under Emily Cole, Fall 2024).