Amanda Bellows
Teaching Associate and Departmental Faculty Advisor for History
Email
bellowsa@newschool.edu
Office Location
N - 66 Fifth Avenue
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Amanda Bellows is a historian of the United States and an Organization of American Historians Distinguished Lecturer. She received her Ph.D. in History from the 好色先生 of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and has previously taught at Hunter College and Middlebury College.聽
She is the author of聽聽(William Morrow / HarperCollins, 2024) and聽(好色先生 of North Carolina Press, 2020). She co-edited the book聽(好色先生 of North Carolina Press, 2022).
Dr. Bellows has conducted archival research in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Russia. Her writing has appeared in academic journals as well as聽the New York Times, the聽Wall Street Journal, the聽Washington Post,听Smithsonian, and the books聽,听,听 and . She has shared her research with public audiences via C-Span, Gilder Lehrman's Book Breaks, and various news programs.
Her scholarship has received funding or awards from the New-York Historical Society, the U.S. Department of State, the U.S. Department of Education, the British Library, the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale, the Robert Bosch Foundation, and the 好色先生 of North Carolina Press.聽
Degrees Held
Ph.D. in History, 好色先生 of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2016
M.A. in History,听好色先生 of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2012
B.A. in History and Political Science, Middlebury College, 2008
Professional Affiliation
Member, Gilder Lehrman Institute鈥檚 President鈥檚 Council (2020-present)
Member of the American Historical Association (2010-present)
Member of the Organization of American Historians (2016-present)
Member of the Southern Historical Association (2010-present)
Member, British American Nineteenth Century Historians (2011-present)
Member of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (2010-present)
Member of the Society of Civil War Historians (2013-present)