About Marian Mathison Desrosiers

Marian Mathison Desrosiers has a BA in History from Salve Regina, an MA in Political Science from Tufts University, and a PhD in Humanities from Salve Regina University. Her books include Island Girl: The Life of Justice Florence Kerins Murray, Patriot, Public Servant, Esteemed Jurist (2022); The Banisters of Rhode Island in the American Revolution: Liberty and the Costs of Loyalties (2020); John Banister of Newport: The Life and Accounts of a Colonial Merchant, Jefferson (2017); and The Convergence of Hope: The Hundred Year History of Our Lady of Hope Chapel, West Barnstable, Massachusetts, with Frederick H. Spero (2015). In addition to authoring articles on smallstatebighistory.com, she has published several articles in Newport History and Rhode Island Roots. Her career in education spans 1969-2018, teaching in public and private secondary schools in Hawaii, Washington state, Georgia, and Massachusetts. For a dozen years she taught undergraduates and graduate students at University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, and Salve Regina University. She has served on the Massachusetts Humanities Board, the National Council for the Social Studies, and National History Day. She held fellowships with Schlesinger Library, the RI Supreme Court Historical Society, Rhode Island Council on the Humanities, and New England Regional Consortium. Contact her at deerjumphill@gmail.com.