Working from Home: Historians Writing about Themselves and Their Ancestors, Part 2
AHA Session 140
Saturday, January 4, 2025: 3:30 PM-5:00 PM
Trianon Ballroom (New York Hilton, Third Floor)
Chair:
Martha S. Jones, Johns Hopkins University
Panel:
Philip Deloria, Harvard University
Stéphane Gerson, New York University
Tobie S. Meyer-Fong, Johns Hopkins University
Nell Irvin Painter, Princeton University
Maboula Soumahoro, University of Tours
Stéphane Gerson, New York University
Tobie S. Meyer-Fong, Johns Hopkins University
Nell Irvin Painter, Princeton University
Maboula Soumahoro, University of Tours
Session Abstract
This roundtable, part two of “Working from Home: Historians Writing about Themselves and their Ancestors," assembles historians who have recently engaged their own biographies or family histories as scholars and descendants. It explores 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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