Image: Congratulations to doctoral candidate Theodora (Tedi) Light on the successful defense of her Ph.D. dissertation entitled ""On the Road to Rebel”: Indigenous Maroons in Cuba and Florida, 1500-1739." Light is currently working as adjunct faculty at the University of South Carolina - Beaufort, where she is teaching the Early America survey (REACH Act) course. Her research was supported this year by the Gregory research fellowship in history.