Participant Info
- First Name
- Riley
- Last Name
- Sutherland
- Country
- United States
- State
- MA
- rileysutherland@fas.harvard.edu
- Affiliation
- Harvard University
- Website URL
- Keywords
- U.S. women’s and gender history, disability history, history of science and medicine, public history, archival theory and practice, nineteenth-century U.S. (with a focus on New England), landscape and environmental histories, digital and community-engaged humanities
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- MA
Personal Info
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- About Me
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I am a mid-program History Ph.D. candidate specializing in U.S. History to 1877, Public History, Archival Studies, and Disability Studies, with a secondary field in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. My research examines how women patients, physicians, nurses, and staff collaboratively developed new theories of the body, illness, and cure within a nineteenth-century Massachusetts asylum.
I am also a committed public historian and teacher with interests in both academic and applied historical work. I have worked with the National Archives at the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library, the Clay County (Missouri) Historical Society, and the Pinckney Papers Project, and I am a co-founder of the Salus Populi Project, a digital archive dedicated to expanding public access to historical sources.
My work bridges academic scholarship and public history, with a focus on disability, gender, and memory, and I am open to teaching-focused, research, and alt-ac opportunities as I continue my doctoral training.
- Recent Publications
“Life on Bussey Hill: The Giles-Bancroft Family,” Arnoldia: The Magazine of the Arnold Arboretum (forthcoming, Summer 2026). Co-authored with Rayha Kelly McPherson, Madeleine Riskin-Kutz, and Jasmine N. Wynn.
“To Secure Her Right: Sarah Osborn Benjamin’s Revolutionary Memory,” Cambridge History of the American Revolution, vol. 2, Revolutionary Moments, ed. Marjoleine Kars, Andy Schocket, and Michael A. McDonnell (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025).
“Camp Followers,” Digital Encyclopedia of George Washington (digital; 2025).
“Virginia Women During the Revolutionary War,” Encyclopedia Virginia (digital; Spring 2025).
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- Country Focus
- United States
- Expertise by Geography
- United States
- Expertise by Chronology
- 18th century, 19th century, 20th century
- Expertise by Topic
- Disability, Environment, Family, Food History, Gender, Human Rights, Local & Regional, Medicine, Migration & Immigration, Museums, Pedagogy, Public History, Science, Urban History, Women
