Caroline Hackett is a recent Ph.D. graduate in History from Florida State University. Her dissertation, "Propriétaires in Plain Sight: The Legal and Economic Autonomy of Married Women in Southern France, 1750-1815," focuses on women's capabilities before, during, and after the French Revolution. Using notarial records, court documents, and family records, she argues that the Roman legal tradition in the South systematically empowered women to actively own property, manage businesses, and inherit in their own right. Drawing from a combination of notarial records, legal proceedings, and family papers, Hackett reveals that even married women had significant autonomy over their property, and consequently encourage historians to reevaluate our assumptions about the institution of marriage while broadening our geographic approaches to include more regional studies. Caroline holds expertise in Early Modern Europe, Early America, The Atlantic World, Economic History, Legal History, Gender and Sexuality. She has ten years of teaching experience at the secondary and university levels.