The DC History Center is proud to announce its University Advisory Group, composed of outstanding academic historians and teachers of DC history across the DMV area and nationwide.
We have long nurtured rewarding relationships with historians at local institutions including Derek Musgrove at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Amanda Huron at University of the District of Columbia; and Chris Klemek at George Washington University—to name just a few.
But we wanted to learn more about scholars at other local universities, like Ashley Preston at Howard University, and further afield. Kate Masur and Tamika Nunley, for instance, are doing groundbreaking work, located as far afield as Northwestern and Cornell University respectively.
We also suspected that these scholars might enjoy getting to know one another and sharing insights about their work. The conversations we’ve already had as we form this group have affirmed that instinct.
Thus, the University Advisory Group creates a much needed platform for making our DC History Center resources—the collections, but also internships and fellowships—more visible and available for students and researchers. This exchange is also bound to create exciting pathways for translating academic scholarship to a broad audience.
We look forward to nurturing connections and building relationships in this field, supporting new—as well as established—scholars as they teach all of us about the national city whose history has come to fascinate us all. A special thanks to our wonderful University Advisory Group members for agreeing to take this journey with us.