Unearthing Hidden Black Histories in New York City
Alexander Manevitz is an historian, educator, and public scholar on race, freedom, and urbanism in the nineteenth-century United States and New York City. He specializes in African American history, the history of early American capitalism, and how a diverse array of Americans shaped the growth of the cities we live in today. Manevitz completed his Ph.D. in U.S. History from New York University and is currently an Assistant Professor of History at Baruch College, CUNY. Previously, he has been a Visiting Assistant Professor of American Studies at Trinity College, a Postdoctoral Fellow at the New-York Historical Society and the New School University, a dissertation fellow at the McNeil Center for Early American History at the University of Pennsylvania, and a history teacher at an independent secondary school. He has collaborated with New York City cultural institutions like the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the New-York Historical Society, and you can find his work in publications from the Journal of Urban History to the Washington Post.
Power and the Possibilities of Remembering
Unearthing Hidden Black Histories in New York City
Dr. Alexander Manevitz ’09
Wednesday, March 27, 2024
4:30pm
Rittenberg Lounge, Mather Hall
Reception to follow
Alexander Manevitz is an historian, educator, and public scholar on race, freedom, and urbanism in the nineteenth-century United States and New York City. He specializes in African American history, the history of early American capitalism, and how a diverse array of Americans shaped the growth of the cities we live in today. Manevitz completed his Ph.D. in U.S. History from New York University and is currently an Assistant Professor of History at Baruch College, CUNY. Previously, he has been a Visiting Assistant Professor of American Studies at Trinity College, a Postdoctoral Fellow at the New-York Historical Society and the New School University, a dissertation fellow at the McNeil Center for Early American History at the University of Pennsylvania, and a history teacher at an independent secondary school. He has collaborated with New York City cultural institutions like the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the New-York Historical Society, and you can find his work in publications from the Journal of Urban History to the Washington Post.
