Participant Info
- First Name
- Alyssa Toby
- Last Name
- Fahringer
- Country
- United States
- State
- VA Virginia
- afahring@gmu.edu
- Affiliation
- George Mason University
- Website URL
- Keywords
- disaster studies, public history, digital history
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
Alyssa has a PhD in American history with minor fields in digital humanities and public history. Her dissertation, “‘With All Her Sad Disasters, What Do We See in this City?’: Reconstruction, Race, and the Politics of Disaster in Richmond, 1870-1918,” examines three disasters that occurred in Richmond in 1870 and uses them as a lens to understand the history of the city in the Reconstruction era. She works as a digital scholarship librarian.
- Recent Publications
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- @alyssafahringer
- Country Focus
- United States
- Expertise by Geography
- United States
- Expertise by Chronology
- 19th century
- Expertise by Topic
- Libraries & Archives, Museums, Public History
