Kaitlyn Coons

Kaitlyn Coons is a fourth-year student pursuing a double major in History and Classical Civilization, along with minors in Digital Humanities and Latin Language and Culture. She is writing a History Departmental Honors Thesis under the mentorship of Professor Stefania Tutino. Kaitlyn’s thesis seeks to reconstruct the intellectual network of the 17th-century broker of knowledge, William Leybourn, and rewrite the story of the so-called passive and peripheral printer. It is an interdisciplinary project combining traditional historical investigation with Digital Humanities technologies to provide new insights into the nature of discovery in Early Modern England and the role of intellectual networks in the dissemination of knowledge to both academic and non-academic audiences. In her free time, you can find Kaitlyn swimming with friends at Sunset Rec or running in the neighborhoods around campus with BruinRunners!