Participant Info

First Name
Sara
Last Name
Collini
Country
United States
State
TX
Affiliation
The University of Texas at Arlington
Website URL
http://www.saracollini.org/
Keywords
enslaved women, slavery, childbirth, midwifery, medicine, health, early America, 18th century, 19th century, Revolutionary Era, Early Republic, public history, digital history, digital humanities
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PhD
PhD

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About Me

Sara Collini is an Assistant Professor of History at The University of Texas at Arlington. She studies early America, slavery, women’s history, health and medicine, digital history, and public history.

Collini earned her PhD from George Mason University in 2020. Her current manuscript project, Birthing a Nation: Enslaved Women and Midwifery in Early America, explores the lives and work of enslaved midwives during the eras of the American Revolution and Early Republic in Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina.

Collini previously worked at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (RRCHNM) at George Mason University, collaborated on digital public history projects at the National Women’s History Museum and George Washington’s Mount Vernon, including the Database of Mount Vernon’s Enslaved Community, and was part of the Research and Community Engagement Team for the African American Burial Ground, A. P. Calhoun Family Plot, and Woodland Cemetery Historic Preservation Project at Clemson University.

Recent Publications

“The Labors of Enslaved Midwives in Revolutionary Virginia.” In Women in the American Revolution: Gender, Politics, and the Domestic World, edited by Barbara B. Oberg, 19-38. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019.

Media Coverage
Country Focus
United States
Expertise by Geography
United States
Expertise by Chronology
18th century, 19th century
Expertise by Topic
American Founding Era, Medicine, Public History, Race, Slavery, Women