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Meet Professor Anishanslin
I’m an Associate Professor of History and Art History at the University of Delaware and in 2020-21, a Fellow at the Davis Center for Historical Studies at Princeton University. But history is more than just a job to me.
Image: At the New-York Historical Society, 2015. Photo by Christine Moncrief.
Portrait of a Woman in Silk
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“This dazzling book discovers within one small canvas a brilliant array of lives, trades, circuits, and empires. Written with verve and insight, Anishanslin’s Portrait of a Woman in Silk paints a global early America in vivid color. It will astonish.” - Jane Kamensky, author of A Revolution in Color: The World of John Singleton Copley
Image: © Yale University Press, 2016.
Outside the Classroom
We’re all better off if there’s a bridge rather than a barrier between academic and public history. I'm active in communicating history to audiences through public talks, podcasts, and TV appearances, and I’ve worked in museums and historic preservation (where my love affair with material culture began).
Image: Thomas Jefferson insisted we take a selfie, Williamsburg, VA, 2015.