Participant Info
- First Name
- Jessica
- Last Name
- Parr
- Country
- United States
- State
- MA Massachusetts
- jessica.parr@simmons.edu
- Affiliation
- Simmons College
- Website URL
- www.jessicaparr.org
- Keywords
- Atlantic Word, Slavery, Abolition, Digital History, Memory Studies, Race, Religious Studies
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
Lecturer at Simmons College in Boston, MAAffiliate Assistant Professor in the Women’s Studies Program at the University of New Hampshire, Durham.
Fellow of the Royal Historical Society
Fellowships and Grants from the Boston Athenaeum, the American Studies Association, the John Hope Franklin Research Center at Duke University, Gilder Lehrman Institute, Mystic Seaport, and Congregational Library.
Regular contributor to The Junto: a Group Blog in Early American History and Black Perspectives.
Managing editor of The Programming Historian,
- Recent Publications
Jessica M. Parr, Inventing George Whitefield: Race, Revivalism, and the Making of a Religious Icon (Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2015; pbk 2016)
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- twitter.com/ProvAtlantic
- Country Focus
- Expertise by Geography
- Caribbean, United Kingdom, United States
- Expertise by Chronology
- 17th century, 18th century, 19th century
- Expertise by Topic
- American Revolution, Colonialism, Computational, Emancipation, Public History, Race, Slavery, Religion
