Her research interests focus on the German-speaking Atlantic world in the early modern period. Her publications include Immigrant and Entrepreneur: The Atlantic World of Caspar Wistar, 1650-1750 (2008) and articles about migration in early modern Europe and to the British colonies. Rosalind’s love of public history grew out of her experience as an archivist and museum educator in the 1980s. Since moving to Central Florida in 1994, she has worked to create opportunities for students to conduct publicly engaged research and to connect their classroom experience with the communities in which they live. She is currently directing UCF’s Public History Center.