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First Name
Rachel
Last Name
Pitkin
Affiliation
The CUNY Graduate Center, Humanities New York, and The Gotham Center for New York City History
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Keywords
Public History and Historical Memory, Public Humanities, Women and Gender, Settler Colonialism, Development of Social Welfare
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About Me

Rachel Pitkin is a PhD student in History at the CUNY Graduate Center, a predoctoral fellow at the Center for Women’s History at New York Historical, and a Humanities Programs Specialist at Humanities New York. At CUNY, Rachel also serves as Managing Editor for Gotham: A Blog for Scholars of New York City. As a non-Indigenous scholar, her work examines settler colonialism in the early twentieth century, with particular attention to Native and allied advocacy and organizing efforts that precipitated the formation of New York State and national “Indian commissions” in the 1920s.

Rachel as a background in Museum Studies and Education. Before entering the PhD program in History at the CUNY Graduate Center, Rachel was a longtime history and social studies educator.

Recent Publications
Media Coverage
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