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  • Amanda Bellows

    Teaching Associate and Departmental Faculty Advisor for History

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    bellowsa@newschool.edu

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    N - 66 Fifth Avenue

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    Amanda Bellows

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    Amanda Bellows is a historian of the United States. She received her Ph.D. in History from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  

    She is the author of The Explorers: A New History of America in Ten Expeditions (William Morrow / HarperCollins, 2024) and American Slavery and Russian Serfdom in the Post-Emancipation Imagination (University of North Carolina Press, 2020). She co-edited the book South Writ Large: Stories from the Global South (University of North Carolina Press, 2022).

    Dr. Bellows has conducted archival research in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Russia. Her writing has appeared in academic journals as well as the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, Smithsonian, and the books Buying and Selling Civil War Memory in Gilded Age AmericaNew York Times Disunion: A History of the Civil War and Disunion: Modern Historians Revisit and Reconsider the Civil War from Lincoln's Election to the Emancipation Proclamation. She has shared her research with public audiences via C-Span, Gilder Lehrman's Book Breaks, and various news programs.

     


    Degrees Held

    Ph.D. in History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2016

    M.A. in History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2012

    B.A. in History and Political Science, Middlebury College, 2008


    Professional Affiliation

    Member of the American Historical Association (2010-present)

    Member of the Organization of American Historians (2016-present)

    Member of the Southern Historical Association (2010-present)

    Member, British American Nineteenth Century Historians (2011-present)

    Member of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (2010-present)

    Member of the Society of Civil War Historians (2013-present)


    Current Courses

    Independent Senior Project
    LHIS 4990, Fall 2024

    Future Courses

    Explorations in U.S. History
    LHIS 2580, Spring 2025

    Independent Senior Project
    LHIS 4990, Spring 2025

    Independent Study
    LHIS 3950, Spring 2025

    Intro to Global Slaveries
    LHIS 2044, Spring 2025

    Past Courses

    Civil War & Reconstruction
    LHIS 3066, Spring 2024

    History of Russia
    LHIS 2052, Spring 2024

    Independent Senior Project
    LHIS 4990, Spring 2024

    Independent Study
    LHIS 3950, Spring 2024

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