Emily Dixon Magness (Cherokee Nation, Shawnee Tribe) is a Ph.D. Candidate in History at William & Mary, where she studies gender, war, and politics during the Anglo-Cherokee War. Emily is currently working on her…
Christopher Heaney, The Pennsylvania State University
Jan 24, 2025
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Christopher Heaney is an Associate Professor of Modern Latin American History at the Pennsylvania State University, where he trains students in the ethnohistory of science, museums, race, and deathways in the Andes,…
Matt Bahar is Associate Professor of History at Oberlin College. He received his PhD at the University of Oklahoma in 2012 and was an NEH Long-term Fellow at the Huntington Library in 2014-2015. His research and…
The McNeil Center for Early American Studies, 1838 Black Metropolis, and the Library Company of Philadelphia will be partnering together to host “Black Philadelphia in the 18th and 19th Centuries” on February 20-22,…
Megan Baker is a doctoral candidate in art history at the University of Delaware. Her dissertation, “Crayon Rebellion: The Material Politics of North American Pastels, 1758-1814,” considers the ascendent popularity of…
Daniel Livesay is Associate Professor of History at Claremont McKenna College. His work analyzes issues of race, slavery, and family in the early-modern Atlantic World. His first book, Children of Uncertain Fortune:…
Hampton Smith, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mar 26, 2025
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Hampton Smith is doctoral candidate in the History, Theory, and Criticism of Art and Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he is completing a dissertation, “Making against Slavery: Artisanry,…
Hannah Kaemmer, McNeil Center for Early American Studies
Mar 28, 2025
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Hannah Kaemmer is the Barra Postdoctoral Fellow at the McNeil Center for Early American Studies. Her research focuses on the built environments of empire and the intersection of science, environment, and architecture in…
Lydia Curliss (Nipmuc) is a PhD Candidate at the University of Maryland, College of Information. Her research interests include Indigenous Knowledges, cultural heritage memory institutions and their collections,…
Natalie Zacek is Senior Lecturer in American Studies at the University of Manchester, where she has taught since she received her PhD in history from Johns Hopkins University. Her first monograph, Settler Society in the…
