Summer Jefferson Symposium 2022

Lindsay M. Chervinsky

Kundrun Fellow at the International Center for Jefferson Studies and a Senior Fellow at the Center for Presidential History 

Lindsay M. Chervinsky is an expert on the Cabinet, presidential history, and U.S. government institutions. Currently, she is the Kundrun Fellow at the International Center for Jefferson Studies and a Senior Fellow at the Center for Presidential History. Previously, she was a historian at the White House Historical Association and a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Presidential History at Southern Methodist University. Chervinsky received her B.A. in history and political science from the George Washington University and completed her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of California, Davis. She is the author of the award-winning The Cabinet: George Washington and the Creation of an American Institution, which was published by Harvard University Press (April 2020) and the forthcoming An Honest Man: The Inimitable Presidency of John Adams (2024). Her writing has been published on CNN.com, the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, USA Today, Ms. Magazine, The Daily Beast, The Hill, and more.
 

Justene Hill Edwards

History Professor, Corcoran Department of History, College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences at the University of Virginia

Justene Hill Edwards teaches in the Corcoran Department of History at the University of Virginia. She is a historian of African American history, specializing in the histories of slavery and American capitalism. Always highlighting the experiences of enslaved and formerly enslaved people, Hill Edwards explores the complicated relationship between economic freedom and political freedom for people of African descent in the United States. She is the author of Unfree Markets: The Slaves’ Economy and the Rise of Capitalism in South Carolina. Unfree Markets explores the economic lives of enslaved people, not as property or bonded laborers, but as active participants in their local economies. It provides the fullest account to date of the strategies that enslaved people used to create their own networks of commerce, from the colonial period to the Civil War. Hill Edwards’ next book, The Bank: African Americans’ Struggle for Economic Equality in Reconstruction America, is a history of the Freedman’s Savings and Trust Company, known as the Freedman’s Bank, founded in 1865.  
 

Holly Cowan Shulman

Research Professor of History, Editor of The Dolley Madison Digital Edition, College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences at the University of Virginia 

Holly Cowan Shulman is a Research Professor in the Corcoran Department of History and the editor in chief of the complete papers of Dolley Madison published by the University of Virginia Press: The Dolley Madison Digital Edition. She is currently working on a book about Dolley Madison, the institution of slavery, and Madison’s enslaved community. Among her other works, Shulman is also an editor of The Eleanor Roosevelt Encyclopedia. Shulman earned her Ph.D. from the University of Maryland and holds an M.A. from Columbia and a B.A. from the University of Chicago.
 

Kirt von Daacke

Assistant Dean, Undergraduate College of Arts & Sciences, and Professor of History in Corcoran Department of History in the College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences at the University of Virginia

Kirt von Daacke is Assistant Dean and Professor in the College of Arts & Sciences at the University of Virginia. A historian, he co-chaired the UVA President’s Commission on Slavery from 2013 to 2019 and now co-chairs the new UVA President’s Commission on the University in the Age of Segregation. He is the author of Freedom Has a Face: Race, Identity, and Community in Jefferson’s Virginia, co-author of the President’s Commission on Slavery and the University 2018 Report, a contributing author to the edited volume Educated in Tyranny: Slavery at Thomas Jefferson’s University, and is currently editing a new volume, After Emancipation: A History of Race, Community, and the University of Virginia. He also founded and leads “Jefferson’s University: The Early Life Project,” a major digital humanities initiative.