Carolyn Eastman

During the 2021-2022 academic year, she will be in residence as a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) fellow at the New-York Historical Society, developing a new book on New Yorkers’ experiences of the yellow fever epidemics in the 1790s. She will continue that work in 2022-2023 as a Public Scholar funded by the NEH.

She writes about early America and the Atlantic world, focusing on the intersections of gender, political culture, and the mediums of writing, speaking, and visual images.

More information at https://carolyneastman.org/