Dr. Donovan Fifield

Donovan Fifield is a postdoctoral researcher studying the social and economic history of the Acadian expulsion in the context of the Seven Years’ War in addition to the Loyalist diaspora in the aftermath of the American Revolution. He is particularly interested in the economic transitions that coincided with the displacement of these populations, particularly concerning property and public finance, and how exiles adapted to new economic cultures around the Atlantic. Since August 2024, he has been a postdoctoral researcher in the ERC Atlantic Exiles Project at University of Tübingen. Prior to this current position, Donovan Fifield studied history at the University of Connecticut before pursuing graduate-level studies at Memorial University of Newfoundland and the University of Virginia. He completed his PhD in 2024 at the University of Virginia after defending his dissertation “Obligation & Tension: Credit, War, and Imperial Crisis in the British-American Northeast, 1688-1775” on the relationship between war finance and imperial politics in British North America before the American Revolution.

• Colonial North America
• Imperialism in the Atlantic World
• The American Revolution
• Economic History