Participant Info
- First Name
- Bethany
- Last Name
- McGlyn
- Country
- United States
- State
- DE Delaware
- bethjmcglyn@gmail.com
- Affiliation
- Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library
- Website URL
- bethanyjmcglyn@com
- Keywords
- Early America, Atlantic World, Maryland, Labor, Material Culture, Visual Culture, Slavery, Art and Architecture, Landscapes, Museums, Public History
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- other credentials
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
I am a historian and curator of American Material Culture who specializes in labor, landscape, and material culture in the early American South and Atlantic World. I am a graduate of the University of Delaware and the Winterthur Program in American Material Culture, where my M.A. thesis, “Who Built the City on the Severn? Slavery, Material Culture, and Landscapes of Labor in early Annapolis,” foregrounded the lives of enslaved artisans and documented their work throughout the city. Prior to my M.A., I studied history and art history at Towson University where I graduated with the Sander Senior Prize in History.
I have lectured and presented research on topics from English abolitionist ceramics to Maryland backcountry furniture, and have received grants, awards, and fellowships from Winterthur, the Decorative Arts Trust, George Washington’s Mount Vernon, Vernacular Architecture Forum, Homewood Museum at Johns Hopkins University, and the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts. I began my career in curatorial departments at Historic Annapolis and Hampton National Historic Site and I currently work as the Sewell C. Biggs Curatorial Fellow at Winterthur. I will begin my Ph.D., supported by the Jefferson Scholars Foundation, in the history department at the University of Virginia in Fall 2021.
- Recent Publications
- Media Coverage
- Country Focus
- United States
- Expertise by Geography
- Atlantic, British Isles, Caribbean, North America, United Kingdom, United States
- Expertise by Chronology
- 17th century, 18th century, 19th century, Early Modern
- Expertise by Topic
- American Revolution, American Founding Era, Art & Architectural History, Food History, Labor, Local & Regional, Material Culture, Museums, Public History, Race, Rebellion & Revolution, Slavery, Urban History
