Participant Info
- First Name
- Elsa
- Last Name
- Mendoza
- Country
- United States
- State
- VT Vermont
- emendoza@middlebury.edu
- Affiliation
- Middlebury College
- Website URL
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- Availability
- Media Contact
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- PhD
- PhD
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- About Me
Elsa Barraza Mendoza is an Assistant Professor in the History Department at Middlebury College and the associate curator of the Georgetown Slavery Archive. Her research focuses on the lives of people enslaved at universities as well as the financial connections between slavery and higher education in the United States. Her work on slaveholding at Georgetown University was recently published in the Journal of Jesuit Studies. She is the co-editor of Facing Georgetown’s History: A Reader on Slavery, Memory, and Reconciliation (Georgetown University Press, 2021).
She is currently a Faculty Fellow at Harvard University’s Charles Warren Center for the Study of American History. At the Warren Center, she will work on a study of the lives of enslaved people at Jesuit schools across the country, tentatively titled Property of the College: Enslaved People and the Origins of Jesuit Universities in America.
Mendoza received her PhD in History from Georgetown University. She is a former Fulbright-Garcia Robles Fellow, and her research has been supported by the Cushwa Center for the study of American Catholicism and the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture.
- Recent Publications
- Media Coverage
- Country Focus
- Expertise by Geography
- Expertise by Chronology
- Expertise by Topic
- Race, Rebellion & Revolution, Religion, Science, Slavery
