# Sonia Tycko Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in History The School of History, Classics & Archaeology The University of Edinburgh ![tycko](/sites/g/files/omnuum4141/files/styles/hwp_4_5__320x400/public/historicizingconsent/files/tycko.jpg?itok=jgJxnRCb) email laptop\_windows [University of Edinburgh](https://www.ed.ac.uk/history-classics-archaeology/about-us/staff-profiles/profile_academic.php?search=2&uun=stycko) I am a historian of early modern England and the Atlantic world, with a focus on social and legal history. I am currently completing my first book manuscript, ‘Captured Consent: Contract Labor in English Charity, Colonization, and Warfare, 1600–1700’. At the heart of the book are transatlantic indentured servants, who I study in comparison and connection to apprenticed pauper children, conscripted soldiers, and prisoners of war put to work in England. The book argues that exploitative early modern labor practices played a significant role in the development of the concepts of freedom of contract and the sanctity of an individual’s consent.