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Adviser: W. Fitzhugh Brundage

Graduate Email: erothberg@womenshistory.org

Education

B.A., Wesleyan University, 2015
M.A. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2018
M.A. Thesis: “Full-Grown, Large, and Shapely”: Parades, Free Labor, and Civic Manhood after the Civil War
PhD, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2022

Research Interests

My dissertation focuses on the cultural practices of urban democracy and identity in American cities at the turn of the twentieth century. My research interests include urban history, gender history, memory and digital history methodologies.

I currently am the U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Predoctoral Fellow in Gender Studies at the National Women's History Museum. I served as Co-Director of the Digital History Lab from 2019-2021.