Dr. Warsh received her Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in 2009.  She is interested in areas of social and cultural intersection in the early modern period, particularly in the formation of the Iberian and British Atlantic worlds in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.  Her research and teaching focus on commodity trades, consumption and identity; the relationships between individuals and empire; and trade networks and diaspora. She is currently revising her dissertation on the early modern pearl trade for publication, and working on an article about enslaved African pearl divers in the Caribbean.