Alyssa Toby Fahringer

Former DH Fellow & Graduate Research Assistant

Alyssa is a PhD candidate in American history with minor fields in digital humanities and public history. Her research interests are late nineteenth and early twentieth century disasters, Reconstruction, the political, social, and cultural lives of freedpeople in the South during Reconstruction, and memory and memorialization in public spaces. Alyssa is currently working on her dissertation, which is tentatively titled "'With All Her Sad Disasters, What Do We See in this City?': Reconstruction, Race, and the Politics of Disaster in Richmond, 1870-1918." Her dissertation examines three disasters that occurred in Richmond in 1870 and uses them as a lens to understand the history of the city in the Reconstruction era as well as the public memory of the disasters. She was selected to be a Digital History Fellow at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media for the 2014-15 academic year, and currently works there as a Graduate Research Assistant.

Projects

The Networked Curator

Doing Digital History 2014 and 2016

PressForward

Papers of the War Department 1784-1800

The September 11 Digital Archive

Omeka