{"id":2,"date":"2024-08-27T01:31:23","date_gmt":"2024-08-27T01:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jennifernmills.com\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2026-03-25T12:22:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T16:22:15","slug":"sample-page","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jennifernmills.com\/?page_id=2","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Jennifer Mills<\/strong> is a PhD candidate in History at George Mason University, where her research sits at the intersection of labor history, racial violence, military history, and the political economy of the post-Civil War South. Her dissertation, <em>Sugar and Terror: The Thibodaux Massacre and the Political Economy of Violence<\/em>, examines the 1887 massacre of Black sugar workers in Louisiana, interrogating how cultural frameworks legitimized extreme state and paramilitary violence against working people in the Reconstruction and post-Reconstruction eras.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A retired U.S. Air Force Staff Sergeant and first-generation college student, Jennifer brings a distinctive perspective to the study of military power, institutional violence, and working-class experience. She is affiliated with the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (RRCHNM) at George Mason, where her work incorporates digital humanities methods including spatial analysis and data visualization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Her broader research interests span 19th-century American labor and military history, the political economy of racial violence, and the history of collective violence. She has presented her work at the American Historical Association Annual Meeting and is currently working on her dissertation on Gilded Age labor violence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jennifer Mills is a PhD candidate in History at George Mason University, where her research sits at the intersection of labor history, racial violence, military history, and the political economy of the post-Civil War South. Her dissertation, Sugar and Terror: The Thibodaux Massacre and the Political Economy of Violence, examines the 1887 massacre of Black&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennifernmills.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennifernmills.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennifernmills.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennifernmills.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennifernmills.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/jennifernmills.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":324,"href":"https:\/\/jennifernmills.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennifernmills.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}