Participant Info
- First Name
- Katherine Egner
- Last Name
- Gruber
- Country
- United States
- State
- VA Virginia
- katherine.gruber@jyf.virginia.gov
- Affiliation
- Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation
- Website URL
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/katherineegnergruber/
- Keywords
- Early America, American Revolution, museums, museum, material culture, 18th-century America, colonial America, public history, women's history, social history, history relevance
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- other credentials
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
History matters. The past is always present.
I am passionate about sharing stories of history’s ordinary people through the objects of their lives, and bridging the gap between our past and our future.
Whether at Jamestown Settlement or the American Revolution Museum at Yorktown, my goal is to connect visitors with the past, and encourage productive and beneficial dialogues about our present.
- Recent Publications
Select Publications
- Williamsburg During the Colonial Period, Encyclopedia Virginia
- Slave Clothing and Adornment in Virginia, Encyclopedia Virginia
- ‘By Measures Taken of Men:’ Clothing the Classes in William Carlin’s Alexandria 1763-1782, Early American Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, vol. 13 no. 4, 2015, p. 931-953.
Presentations
- Invisible Spy, presented at the International Spy Museum, 2016
- A Tailor-Made Revolution: Clothing William Carlin’s Alexandria, Emerging Revolutionary War Symposium, 2019
- Origins of the American Revolution Panel, Emerging Revolutionary War Symposium, 2019
Interviews
- “Tenacity: Women in Jamestown and Early Virginia,” The Junto, May 2019
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- Country Focus
- Expertise by Geography
- Atlantic, United States
- Expertise by Chronology
- 17th century, 18th century
- Expertise by Topic
- American Revolution, American Founding Era, Material Culture, Museums, Public History, Women
