Participant Info
- First Name
- Rachel
- Last Name
- Pitkin
- Country
- United States
- State
- NY
- RPitkin@gmail.com
- Affiliation
- The CUNY Graduate Center, The Gotham Center for New York City History, and Humanities New York
- Website URL
- Keywords
- Public History and Historical Memory, Women and Gender, Settler Colonialism, Development of Social Welfare
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- MA
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
Rachel is a PhD student in History at the CUNY Graduate Center and a Graduate Fellow at the Gotham Center for New York City History where she serves as Managing Editor for Gotham: A Blog for Scholars of New York City. Rachel is an incoming PreDoctoral Fellow at The New York Historical for the upcoming 2025-2026 academic year.
Before entering the PhD program in History at the CUNY Graduate Center, Rachel was a longtime history and social studies educator. She continues to develop her education and facilitation skills with the American Social History Project (ASHP) as part of the project’s programming. At both Gotham and ASHP, Rachel uses digital tools and platforms to help communicate historical content to the wider public.
Rachel’s current research interests focus on public history and the contestation of history in the public sphere, women and gender, and the development of social welfare and its connections to settler colonialism in early twentieth century New York State.
- Recent Publications
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- Link Text
- Country Focus
- United States
- Expertise by Geography
- United States
- Expertise by Chronology
- 19th century, 20th century
- Expertise by Topic
- Colonialism, Family, Gender, Indigenous Peoples, Local & Regional, Museums, Public History, Sexuality, Women
