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Kristin O’Brassill-Kulfan is Assistant Teaching Professor and Coordinator of the Undergraduate Public History Program and Graduate Public Humanities Program at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ. She holds a PhD in History from the University of Leicester and an MA in Modern History from Queens University Belfast. She is co-editor of Book Reviews for the Journal of the Early Republic and editor of the Perspectives on Global Public History series at Routledge. Her first book, Vagrants and Vagabonds: Poverty and Mobility in the Early American Republic, was published by New York University Press in 2019. Research for her next book project, charting the evolution of the poverty line throughout US history, has been supported by an Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship at the Massachusetts Historical Society, the Library Company of Philadelphia, and the Pennsylvania History and Museum Commission.