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Heather Carlquist Walser received her Ph.D. from Penn State in 2024. Her current project, tentatively titled Negotiating Peace and Power: Amnesty in the Nineteenth Century United States examines the role of amnesty in establishing peace after civil conflict in the early United States. Negotiating Peace and Power demonstrates how government officials and the public used amnesty as a tool of negotiation to resolve violent political conflicts about the Constitution throughout the nineteenth century and how these experiences shaped the use of amnesty and its consequences at the conclusion of the American Civil War.

Heather’s research has been supported by the Library Company and Historical Society of Pennsylvania, the Massachusetts Historical Society, the Kansas Historical Society, the Clements Library, and the Charles Redd Center. Her work has been published by the Washington Post and in the Journal of the Early Republic