Prior to joining the faculty at Pittsburgh in 2012, Molly was a two-year NEH postdoctoral fellow at the Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture in Williamsburg, VA and an Assistant Professor of Iberian World History at Texas A&M University. She completed her Ph.D. at Johns Hopkins University in 2009. Molly is the author of the forthcoming American Baroque: Pearls and the Nature of Empire 1492-1700, which will be published in Spring 2018 with the Omohundro Institute/University of North Carolina Press. She is also co-editor (with Philip D. Morgan) of an anthology of collected essays, Early North America in Global Perspective, published by Routledge in August 2013. Her articles have appeared in the William & Mary Quarterly and Slavery & Abolition.