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Allison RobinsonDepartment of History The University of Chicago1126 E. 59th Street Chicago, IL 60637EDUCATION 2021PhD in History, University of Chicago [Expected in December] Dissertation: “The Political Biography of Dolls: Pedagogy and Reform through Work Project Administration Programs”Committee: Leora Auslander (Co-chair), Thomas Holt (Co-chair), Tara Zara, andRobin Bernstein2018MA from the Winterthur Program in American Material Culture, University of Delaware2014MA in History, University of Chicago2011BA in History with Distinction, Yale UniversityRESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTSNineteenth and twentieth century U.S. history, American material culture, women’s history, history of childhood, cultural history, historical constructions of race and gender, labor history, digital history, and public historyFELLOWSHIPS & GRANTSExternal Fellowships2021Short-Term Fellowship (1 month), Winterthur Museum, Garden, and Library2020 - 2021Smithsonian Institution Predoctoral Fellow (12 months), Archives of American Art and National Museum of American History, Washington, D.C.Craft Research Fund Project Grant (18 months), Center for Craft 2019Summer Research Project Grant, Decorative Arts Trust2019American Historical Association Council Annual Meeting Travel GrantInternal Fellowships2020Center for the Study of Race Politics and Culture Travel Award, Univesity of ChicagoFreehling Travel Award, History Department, University of Chicago2019Freehling Travel Award, History Department, University of ChicagoOrin Williams Fund Travel Award, Social Sciences Division, University of Chicago2017Delaware Public Humanities Institute Summer Research Fellowship, Center for Material Culture Studies, University of DelawareCONFERENCES Panels Organized2020“From the Studio to the (Digital) Archive: Interpreting Constructions of Race, Gender, and Identity in Photographs and Photographic Collections.” 134th Annual American Historical Association Annual Meeting, New York, NY, January 3-8.Papers Presented2020“Collect, Donate, Arrange and Research: The Many Lives of the Baltimore Collection.” Paper presented at the 134th American Historical Association Annual Meeting, New York, NY, January 3-6.2019“Dolls as Data: Unpacking Great Depression-Era Constructions of Race and Nationhood in Work Projects Administration Dolls.” Paper presented at the Social Science History Association Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, November 21-24.2019From Printing Press to Scrapbook: The Trade Card and Consumer Capitalism in the Late Nineteenth Century.” Paper presented at the Popular Culture Association National Conference, Washington, DC, April 17-20“The Scientific Management of War: Gunner’s Calipers and the Modernization of American Black Powder Artillery.” Paper presented at the James A. Barnes Graduate Student History Conference, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, March 22-23.Discussant2019“Cultural Forms and City Spaces.” Urban History Beyond the North Atlantic Graduate Student Conference, History Department, Chicago, IL, May 4.Planning Committee2017-2018Conference Planning Committee, Emerging Scholars Symposium, Center for Material Culture Studies, University of Delware, April 27-28.INVITED LECTURES2020“Black Women’s Portraiture as Political Action.” Paper presented at the Well Read Black Girls Festival, November 7.“The Political Biography of Dolls: Defining the American Identity through Play.” Design History Lecture Series, Drexel University, November 6.“Portraiture as Political Action: Ida B. Wells and the Legacy of Black Women’s Activism through Photography.” Keynote address given at a webinar entitled “Race, Gender, Politics, and History: Reconstructing Black Women’s Activism,” Digital Public Library of America, July 16.2018“The Milwaukee Handicraft Project: Crafting an American Identity through Dolls.” Given at the Saturday Symposium, Winterthur Museum, Garden, and Library, April 21.“The Milwaukee Handicraft Project: Capturing the Diversity of the United States through Dolls, 1938-1943.” Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, University of Delaware, March 14.TEACHING Prize Lectureship/Instructor of Record2020“(Re-)Producing Race and Gender through American Material Culture,” Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and CultureInstructor of Record2019“America in World Civilization III” (1890 to the present) Social Sciencies Collegiate DivisionTeaching Internships and Assistantship2020“Gender in World Civilization II” with Sonali ThakkarTeaching Intern, Social Sciences Collegiate Division 2019“Colonizations I” with Stephan PalmiéTeaching Intern, Social Sciences Collegiate Division2016“America in World Civilization II” (c. 1800-1900) with Adam GreenTeaching Intern, Social Sciences Collegiate Division2015“Histories of Violence in the United States” with Kathleen BelewTeaching Assistant, Department of HistoryPUBLICATIONSIn progress“‘It made different human beings out of them’: Education, Uplift, and Race-making through the Milwaukee Handicraft Project,” Winterthur Portfolio.“Empowering Students by Building Digital History Projects in the Classroom,” American Historical Association, Perspectives Daily, Anticipated November 2020. 2020“Building Archives: Training Scholars, Teaching History through Collaborative Digital Projects,” American Historical Association, Perspectives Daily, September 3. SCHOLARLY DIGITAL HISTORY PROJECTS2020Project Leader, “Narratives/Counternarrtives: Two Centuries of Race, Gender, and Class in American Material Culture,” University of Chicago2017-2018Douglass Day Co-Chair and Graduate Researcher, “Colored Conventions Project,” University of Delaware2017Graduate Researcher, “The Baltimore Collection,” Univeristy of DelawareLEADERSHIP AND SERVICESearch Committees2019-2020Graduate Student Representative, Histories of Slavery and Its Afterlives Faculty Search Committee, History Department, University of ChicagoAdvisory Boards2019-presentBoard Member, Grad COMPASS Advisory Committee, University of Chicago 2015-2016Board Member, Making History Work Advisory Board, University of Chicago PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONSAmerican Historical Association Organization of American HistoriansSocial Science History AssociationCERTIFICATIONS2020Certificate in College Teaching, University of Chicago2018 Certificate in Museum Studies, University of Delaware2016 Certificate in the Pedagogy of History, History Department, University of ChicagoLANGUAGESSpanish Reading proficiencyRELATED WORK EXPERIENCE2018Classical Institute of the South Summer Fellow, The Historic New Orleans Collection, New Orleans, LA2017Education Department Intern, Winterthur Museum, Library, & Garden, Wilmington, DE2015-2016Rubeinstein Initiative Curatorial Intern, James Madison’s Monteplier, Orange, VA2011-2012Junior Fellow, Virginia Humanities, Charlottesville, VAPost-Baccalaureate Fellow, Robert Russa Moton Musuem, Farmville, VA2010Events and Visitor Program Intern (Historical Interpreter), Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello, Charlottesville, VA ................
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