Maeve studies the history of the United States, from the Early Republic to the Civil War. Her dissertation, "These United States," offers a new account of the rise of American slavery and the coming of the Civil War. Maeve began her study of history at Yale College, from which she graduated in 2004, before receiving her J.D. from Columbia Law School. After completing a fellowship year at Harvard Law School as the Berger-Howe Fellow in Legal History, she will finish her doctoral work at New York University School of Law as a Samuel I. Golieb Fellow in Legal History.

Dissertation Title:

"These United States: A History of the Fracturing of America"