Lance Pederson

Lance Pederson (he/him/il) is a third year PhD student advised by Dr. Craig Koslofsky. Lance grew up in the suburbs of St. Paul, Minnesota, where he obtained his B.A. from Hamline University. Lance’s dissertation research focuses on queer masculinities in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France. Currently, he is working on two different research projects. The first focuses on the Italian Confraternity scandal of 1682 and the second focuses on the role that masculinity played in the diplomatic interactions between France and the Ayutthaya Kingdom during the late 1680's.