This episode features the first-ever live audience taping of the MHS podcast Historians & Their Histories. Kanisorn Wongsrichanalai, from the MHS Research Department interviews special guests about their journeys to becoming historians. Betsy Klima, Professor of English at UMass Boston and recipient of the MHS NEH Long Term Fellowship, discusses her biographical research on Susanna Haswell Rowson, an 18th century best-selling author whose family experienced the Revolutionary period as loyalists, and her broader project examining women's power and literary influence in early America. Arthur Kamya, a PhD candidate at Boston University, shares his work on examining the Winthrop family's legal practices and discusses how the Massachusetts government was funded through licensing fees and other "sin taxes." Camden R. Elliott, an Assistant Professor of History at Auburn University, describes his environmental history of the Anglo-Wabanaki wars, analyzing how the non-human world shaped these conflicts from the 1670s through the 1760s. Madeline DeDe-Panken, PhD candidate at the Graduate Center at CUNY and recipient of the Mary B. Wright Environmental History Fellowship, discusses her dissertation on the history of foraging, particularly women's roles in late 19th and early 20th century mushroom foraging cultures and questions of whose knowledge was legitimized as scientific. The conversation explores their unexpected archival discoveries, what being a historian entails, and the challenges of doing historical work in current times.

Madeline DeDe-Panken is a recipient of a Mary B. Wright Environmental History Fellowship.

C.R. Elliott is a recipient of a Samuel Victor Constant Fellowship from the Society of Colonial Wars in Massachusetts and a fellowship from the New England Regional Fellowship Consortium.

Arthur George Kimera Kamya is a recipient of a fellowship from the New England Regional Fellowship Consortium.

Betsy Klima is a recipient of the long-term fellowship sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Massachusetts Historical Society. She also received an Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship from the MHS.

To learn more about MHS fellowships and how to apply, please visit this page.

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