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Paul Musselwhite is Associate Professor of History at Dartmouth College. His research focuses on the cultural, intellectual, and political histories of settler colonial societies in the seventeenth century. He is the…

Michael A. Blaakman is an associate professor in the Department of History at Princeton University. A scholar of the revolutionary and early national eras, he focuses on the histories of politics, political economy,…

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…

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,…

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…

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,…

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:…

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…

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,…