Zara Anishanslin specializes in Early American and Atlantic World History, with a focus on eighteenth-century material culture. She’s currently at work on a new research project on the American Revolution.
She is a firm believer in the power of community and collaboration, and owes a lot of places gratitude for her scholarly journey. From 2021-23, she’s a Mellon/ACLS Scholars & Society Fellow, in partnership with Philadelphia’s Museum of the American Revolution. Last year, she was part of Princeton University’s 2020-21 class of Fellows at the Davis Center for Historical Studies. In Fall 2019, she was a Barra Sabbatical Postdoctoral Fellow at one of her favorite places, the McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She has also held postdoctoral fellowships at the New-York Historical Society, the Center for the Humanities at CUNY's Graduate Center, and the Patrick Henry Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of History at Johns Hopkins University. She’s done research and met new colleagues and friends in the US and abroad through generous funding by the Washington Library at Mount Vernon, the Georgian Papers Programme at King's College London and the Royal Archives at Windsor, the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, the Huntington Library, the David Library of the American Revolution, the Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library, the Massachusetts Historical Society, the American Antiquarian Society, the Library Company of Philadelphia, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the International Seminar on the History of the Atlantic World at Harvard University.
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