Stanford Humanities Center
Next Generation Scholar
Department of History, Stanford University
Emily Greenfield is a PhD candidate in U.S. History, studying slavery in American memory. My research explores constructions of the past in public space—the remembering and forgetting that unfolds in textbooks and museums, on tour at historic sites, and across the built landscape of America’s memorials and monuments. Before entering the PhD program she was a producer at CBS News, where my work drew heavily on the network’s film archives, and a member of the leadership team of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation at Monticello.
SHC Project
“Carry Me Back to Old Virginia”: Slavery, Memory, and the Making of a National Shrine
