Zara Anishanslin
Associate Professor of History and Art History
Early American Art and Material Culture
Ph.D. University of Delaware
University of Delaware
206 Munroe Hall
Newark, DE 19716
302-831-2188
Biography
Professor Zara Anishanslin specializes in Early American and Atlantic World History, with a focus on eighteenth-century material culture. Anishanslin received her Ph.D. in the History of American Civilization at the University of Delaware in 2009, where her dissertation won the prize for Best Dissertation in the Humanities. In 2011, it also won the University of Pennsylvania's Zuckerman National Prize in American Studies.
In 2014-15, Anishanslin was a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the New-York Historical Society. In 2009-2010, Anishanslin was the Patrick Henry Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of History at Johns Hopkins University. Additional fellowships include grants from the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, The Huntington Library, the American Antiquarian Society, Center for the Humanities at the CUNY Graduate Center, The Library Company, Harvard Atlantic Seminar, the Massachusetts Historical Society, the McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, Henry Luce Foundation/American Council of Learned Societies, and the Winterthur Museum.
Selected Publications
Books
Portrait of a Woman in Silk: Hidden Histories of the British Atlantic World, Yale University Press, 2016.
Articles and Book Chapters
"'This is the Skin of a Whit[e] Man:' Material Memories 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 in Practice," in Andrew Shankman, editor, The World of the Revolutionary American Republic: Land, Labor, and the Conflict for a Continent (Routledge, 2014).
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