Emily Hager Kasecamp is a Ph.D. student in the Department of History. She is currently studying colonial expansion and exchange in the Ohio region prior to the Seven Years’ War. Most of her research has been on the role of “informal” imperial agents in imperial expansion into the borderland. She also is working on a concentration in Public History. She has been the historian for the Michael Cresap Museum, since 2007 and a Park Ranger for the C & O Canal National Historic Park since 2008.