Please welcome our new National History Day Coordinator, Dr. Shea Winsett!
Shea will serve as the project manager for the DC History Center’s participation in National History Day, ensuring the program is culturally relevant, engaging, and supportive of the needs of DC educators and students.
Shea’s anthropological works includes mapping historical African American cemeteries in Alabama and serving as project manager for the Remembering Slavery, Resistance, and Freedom Project. As project manager, she helped write a $15,000 grant awarded from the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Commission of the Virginia General Assembly. The grand allowed for several commemorative activities across Virginia, remembering cemeteries and other sites of resistance and slavery during the Sesquicentennial celebration fo the Civil War.
Prior to joining the DC History Center, Shea worked as a public school teacher for the Montgomery County School System and an adjunct professor of anthropology at Montgomery College. She also worked as the human resource generalist at World Food Program USA.
Shea is a native of Washington, DC, and a proud product of the Prince George’s County public school system. Shea graduated from Oberlin College, where she received her B.A. in anthropology. She received her doctorate in historical anthropology and archaeology in 2019 from William & Mary. Her dissertation is entitled, “It’s Not Meant for Us”: Exploring the Intersection of Gentrification, Public Education, and Black Identity in Washington, D.C. Shea’s research focuses on race and race relations, African American anthropology and archaeology, urban anthropology, educational anthropology, and theory development.
When she is not thinking great thoughts, you can find her hanging out with her mom, watching Korean dramas and Japanese anime, or meticulously placing stickers in her many planners.
