Zara Anishanslin, Ph.D.
Professor of History | University of Delaware
Zara Anishanslin is Associate Professor of History and Art History at the University of Delaware. She works on early America and the Atlantic World, with a focus on material culture. She served as Material Culture Consult for Lin-Manuel Miranda’s show, “Hamilton: The Exhibition,” and previously taught at CUNY and at Columbia. Anishanslin received her PhD in the History of American Civilization at Delaware (a program she now directs) and was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of History at Johns Hopkins. Her first book, Portrait of a Woman in Silk: Hidden Histories of the British Atlantic World (Yale University Press, 2016) was the Inaugural Winner of The Library Company of Philadelphia’s Biennial Book Prize in 2018 and a Finalist for the 2017 Best First Book Prize from the Berkshire Conference of Women’s Historians. Her current project, Under the King’s Nose: Ex-Pat Patriots during the American Revolution (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, forthcoming) garnered her support as a Mount Vernon Georgian Papers Fellow at the Royal Archives at Windsor Castle and a Davis Center Fellow in Princeton’s History Department. She is currently a Mellon/ACLS Scholars & Society Fellow in partnership with the Museum of the American Revolution. She is Creator and Host of the forthcoming podcast "Thing4Things."