Working from Home: Historians Writing about Themselves and Their Ancestors, Part 1
AHA Session 111
Saturday, January 4, 2025: 1:30 PM-3:00 PM
Trianon Ballroom (New York Hilton, Third Floor)
Chair:
Kendra T. Field, Tufts University
Panel:
Ada Ferrer, Princeton University
Leslie M. Harris, Northwestern University
Martha Hodes, New York University
Martha S. Jones, Johns Hopkins University
David Levering Lewis, New York University
Leslie M. Harris, Northwestern University
Martha Hodes, New York University
Martha S. Jones, Johns Hopkins University
David Levering Lewis, New York University
Session Abstract
This roundtable, part 1 of, “Working from Home: Historians Writing about Themselves and their Ancestors," will assemble historians who have recently engaged their own biographies or family histories as scholars and descendants. It will explore relationships between history, genealogy, and memory; evolving fields, methods, and genres of family history, biography, and memoir; and the opportunities and challenges of such writing.
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