Participant Info
- First Name
- Emily
- Last Name
- Blanck
- Country
- United States
- State
- NJ
- blancke@rowan.edu
- Affiliation
- Rowan University
- Website URL
- https://www.rowan.edu/ric-edelman-college/departments/history/faculty-staff/bios/blanck_emily.html
- Keywords
- Juneteenth African American History Slavery Emancipation Public Memory Public History Legal History Early American History U.S. History Commemorations and Holidays Race and Citizenship Historical Game Simulations Game-Based Learning Reacting to the Past History Pedagogy
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
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- About Me
Emily V. Blanck is Associate Professor of History and Executive Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies at Rowan University. She specializes in the history of slavery and emancipation in the United States, with particular interests in law, memory, public commemoration, and African American history.
Her research examines how Americans have remembered and interpreted freedom over time. She is the author of Tyrannicide: Forging an American Slave Law in Revolutionary South Carolina and Massachusetts (University of Georgia Press, 2014) and the forthcoming Juneteenth: Creating America’s Emancipation Holiday, 1865–2021. Her work has appeared in the Western Historical Quarterly, Slavery & Abolition, the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History, and other scholarly publications. She also has created a digital exhibit about the celebration of Juneteenth in New Jersey: the Juneteenth Archive.
Blanck also develops and teaches Reacting to the Past historical role-playing simulations, an award-winning pedagogy that immerses students in historical debates through active role-playing and primary-source analysis. Through this work, she explores the use of games and simulations to teach history, citizenship, and social movements.
Blanck is available for media interviews, public history projects, invited lectures, and consultation on the history of slavery, emancipation, Juneteenth, historical memory, public holidays, and African American history.
- Recent Publications
- Juneteenth: Creating America’s Emancipation Holiday, 1865–2021 (forthcoming, UNC Press)
- “Juneteenth and Emancipation Celebrations,” Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History (2020)
- “Juneteenth in the Fillmore District, 1945–2016,” Western Historical Quarterly (2019)
- Tyrannicide: Forging an American Slave Law in Revolutionary South Carolina and Massachusetts (2014)
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- www.facebook.com/RememberingJuneteenth
- Country Focus
- United States
- Expertise by Geography
- United States
- Expertise by Chronology
- 18th century, 19th century, 20th century, 21st century
- Expertise by Topic
- American Civil War, American Revolution, American Founding Era, Emancipation, Law, Public History, Race, Slavery
