Zara Anishanslin (she/her) is Associate Professor of History and Art History at the University of Delaware. She works on early America and the Atlantic World, with a focus on material culture. She previously taught at CUNY and at Columbia and was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of History at Johns Hopkins. Her first book, Portrait of a Woman in Silk: Hidden Histories of the British Atlantic World (Yale University Press, 2016) was the Inaugural Winner of The Library Company of Philadelphia’s Biennial Book Prize in 2018 and a Finalist for the 2017 Best First Book Prize from the Berkshire Conference of Women’s Historians. Her current project, Under the King’s Nose: Ex-Pat Patriots during the American Revolution (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, forthcoming) garnered her support as a Mount Vernon Georgian Papers Fellow at the Royal Archives at Windsor Castle, a Barra Sabbatical Fellowship from the McNeil Center at the University of Pennsylvania, and a Davis Center Fellow in Princeton’s History Department. She has also been a Mellon/ACLS Scholars & Society Fellow in partnership with the Museum of the American Revolution, working to further innovations in doctoral training and seeking to build bridges between academia and the public humanities. According to her children, by far the most impressive thing on her CV is that she served as Material Culture Consult for Lin-Manuel Miranda’s show, “Hamilton: The Exhibition.”