2026 Flader Endowment Lecture
“Perishable Property: Rematerializing the Nineteenth Century Telegraph”
March 30 | 4:30 p.m. | Ellis Auditorium
The telegraph is often remembered as a technology that shrank time and space, transforming markets and communication. Join Sophie FitzMaurice, PhD, author and Cambridge Post Doctoral Research Fellow, as she reframes that story by focusing on its physical infrastructure.
Sponsored by the Department of History Flader Endowment Lecture. Free and open to the community!
Sophie FitzMaurice is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Centre for History and Economics at the University of Cambridge, where she is writing her first book, The Material Telegraph (Princeton UP, under contract). She received her PhD in History from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2023. Her doctoral dissertation was awarded the 2024 Nevins Prize by the Society of American Historians, for the best-written dissertation on an important subject in American History. FitzMaurice's most recent publication is an annotated bibliography on communications infrastructures and technologies in world history with Oxford University Press.
