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Past Member

Alice Baumgartner

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship for Assistant Professors

Affiliation

Historical Studies

Field of Study

History
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Alice Baumgartner is interested in the history of slavery and abolition in North America. While at IAS, she will work on a book about the debt peons, child apprentices, and Indigenous captives from New Mexico to Alaska who invoked the Thirteenth Amendment to end slavery—in all of its forms—in the United States.

Dates at IAS

Member
School of Historical Studies
Fall

Degrees

Yale University
Ph.D.
2018
University of Oxford
M.Phil.
2013
Yale University
B.A.
2010

Honors

2024
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship

Appointments

University of Southern California
2020
Assistant Professor