Represented by Chris Rogers, Dunow, Carlson & Lerner Literary Agency, New York, NY
BOOKS AND ESSAYS
Portrait of a Woman in Silk: Hidden Histories of the British Atlantic World (Yale University Press, 2016)
“ ‘This is the Skin of a Whit[e] Man:’ The Materiality of Violence in Sullivan’s Campaign,” in Patrick Spero and Michael Zuckerman, editors, The American Revolution Reborn (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016)
“Producing Empire: The British Empire in Theory and Practice,” in Andrew Shankman, editor, The World of the Revolutionary American Republic: Expansion, Conflict, and the Struggle for a Continent (Routledge Press, 2014)
"Franklin’s Gown: Portraying the Politics of American Silk,” in “Object Lessons,” Common-Place Vol. 15, no. 1 (October 2014)
Newspapers and Blogs
“What we get wrong about Franklin’s ‘a republic, if you can keep it:’ erasing the women of the founding era makes it harder to see women as leaders today,” The Washington Post (October 2019)
"The American Founders celebrated the storming of the Bastille: They understood that revolution means dismantling old power structures, violently if necessary" for "Made by History" in The Washington Post (July 14, 2020)
"Crafting Protest, Fashioning Politics: DIY Lessons from the American Revolution," at The Junto (February 2017) at earlyamericanists.com
"The Political History of Fashion," at Yale Books Unbound (December 2016) at blog.yalebooks.com
"On African American Women’s Voices and Bodies in Colonial America and Today," at Historiann: History and Sexual Politics, 1492 to Present (July 2016) at historiann.com
"General George Washington, Hairdresser" on The Recipes Project (February 2016) at recipes.hypotheses.org
media interviews
Priya Elan, “Dystopia-core: what is the new pandemic-era punk look?,” The Guardian (January 2022)
Alexis Coe, “Why Martha Washington's Life Is So Elusive to Historians” Smithsonian Magazine (June 2020)
Priya Elan, “And just like that … fashion memes move to the front row,” The Guardian (July 2021)
Priya Elan, “Hawaiian shirts are returning – but ‘people want to think twice’, says expert,” The Guardian (April 2021)
Priya Elan, “Kornacki Khakis for the Win!” The Guardian (January 2021)
Banner Image: Dream Book Party! Complete with crackling fireplace, candlelight, and the ghosts of Huguenot silk weaving families past. At Dennis Severs' House, Spitalfields, London, January 2017