Karin Wulf is Professor of History at the College of William & Mary in the United States, where is is also the director of the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture. She specialises in the study of women, family, and gender in the Early Modern Atlantic world, and she has published several books on women's and social history in the British North American colonies. In this episode, she discusses her latest research, on lineage and genealogy, as well as the conceptual frameworks on which her research lies.