You are here: 麻豆视频 College of Arts & Sciences Faculty Profile Page

Back to top

Anna Kaplan Professorial Lecturer History

Contact
Anna Kaplan
CAS | History
Battelle-Tompkins 149
Degrees
PhD, History with Public History concentration, 麻豆视频
MA, Oral History, Columbia University
MA, Anthropology, Columbia University
BA, Anthropology, Folklore and Creative Writing minors, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Bio
Anna Kaplan researches and teaches 20th Century US history and public history. Her focus is memory and the creation and uses of public narratives about race, particularly African American, white, and Indigenous dynamics in the US South. She is working on a manuscript examining how Oxford, MS, communities and the university constructs and employs stories about the University of Mississippi鈥檚 desegregation in 1962. She is also researching the erased history of Black women鈥檚 contributions to early institutional oral history programs. She has worked on oral history projects for the US Department of State, the National Park Service, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Smithsonian Institution's Archives of American Art, and more local DC community organizations. She was one of the founders of the DC Oral History Collaborative and continues to develop and lead community workshops for the program. In addition, Anna serves as the President of Oral History in the Mid-Atlantic Region and on the Nominating Committee for the Oral History Association. She is a 2023-2024 HistoryMakers Faculty Innovations in Pedagogy and Teaching Fellow. Her article 鈥淓veryday Activism: How Local Black Residents Shaped the University of Mississippi and Oxford in the Mid-20th Century鈥 is forthcoming in 2024 in the journal Study the South.
For the Media
To request an interview for a news story, call 麻豆视频 Communications at 202-885-5950 or submit a request.

Teaching

Fall 2024

  • CORE-105 Complex Problems Seminar: What is the South?

  • HIST-328 Introduction to Public History

  • HIST-467 Oral History

  • HNRS-050 Honors Supplement: Introduction to Public History