Courtney Murray is a Dual-Title PhD Candidate in the Departments of English and African American Studies at Pennsylvania State University and a #DigBlk Scholar at the Center for Black Digital Research (CBDR). Her…
Elizabeth Hewitt is Professor and Chair in the Department of English at The Ohio State University, Columbus. Her most recent books include Speculative Fictions: Explaining the Economy in the Early United States (2020)…
The McNeil Center is proud to be a sponsor of the 8th national Slave Dwelling Project Conference October 3-5 in Philadelphia. This year’s theme, The Illusion of Freedom: Slavery in the Northern States seeks to explore…
Emma Chapman, University of California, Davis, and Library Company of Philadelphia
Oct 2, 2024
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Emma Chapman is a PhD candidate at the University of California, Davis. She studies gender, economy, and family structures in early New England and New France. She has worked on multiple public history projects with…
A. Véronique Charles is a researcher, writer, and interdisciplinary scholar in literary studies. She is a postdoctoral fellow at the Society of Fellows in the Humanities at Columbia University where she is also a…
Lilith Todd is a PhD candidate in English & Comparative Literature at Columbia University. Her dissertation, "Tending Another," describes the rhetoric and labor of nursing in the long eighteenth century and within a…
Joseph Rezek is Associate Professor of English at Boston University, where he has recently served as the Director of the American & New England Studies Program. He was awarded an NEH fellowship in 2024-2025 for his…
Scott Heerman, University of Miami and McNeil Center for Early American Studies
May 3, 2024
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Scott Heerman is Associate Professor of History at the University of Miami. He is the author of The Alchemy of Slavery (2018) and is at work on a manuscript that examines the international kidnapping of freed people in…
Leila K. Blackbird (Louisiana Creole, unenrolled adoptee of Apache-Cherokee descent) is currently the Pozen Human Rights Doctoral Fellow of US & Atlantic History at the University of Chicago. She also serves as the…
