O'Brassill-Kulfan, Kristin

Department: History Department
Position: Coordinator & Instructor of Public History
PhD (History) University of Leicester
Website: https://history.rutgers.edu/people/faculty/details/699-o-brassill-kulfan-kristin
Phone: 848-932-8226
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Office Location: 213C Van Dyck Hall
Research Interests: I am a public historian whose work examines links between class, labor status, race, crime, and punishment in the nineteenth century United States and the presentation of challenging histories to the twenty-first century public. I specialize in research-oriented archival methodologies, the construction of constituent-based narratives in public forums, and the inclusion of social history themes in bidirectional public history projects.

‘’Vagrant Negroes:’ The Policing of Labor and Mobility in the Old South,” in Reviving Southern Labor History: Race, Class, and Power, eds Keri Leigh Merritt and Matthew Hild (University Press of Florida, forthcoming 2017)
“Vagabonds and Paupers:” Race and Illicit Mobility in the Early Republic,” Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies, Fall 2016
“The Antebellum Era (1820-1860)," and "The Colored Female Free Produce Society," in Women in American History: An Encyclopedia, ABC-Clio, forthcoming 2016
“Vagrancy,” The Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia, Mid-Atlantic Regional Center for the Humanities (MARCH), Rutgers University-Camden, 2016
Review of Jen Manion, Liberty’s Prisoners: Carceral Culture in Early America in Commonplace: The Journal of Early American Life, Fall 2016
Review of Cornelia H. Dayton and Sharon V. Salinger, Robert Love’s Warnings: Searching for Strangers in Colonial Boston, Institute of Historical Research’s Reviews in History, review no. 1726, 2015

Research Analyst and Archivist, Pennsylvania House of Representatives Archives
Exhibitions Research Consultant, Department of Human History, National Museums of Northern Ireland
Public Programs Coordinator, Ephrata Public Library
Project Archivist, Center for Pennsylvania German Studies, Millersville University of Pennsylvania
Project Archivist, Historical Society of the Cocalico Valley
Project Archivist, Pennsylvania Folklife Society Collection, Ursinus College

Ethics and Epistemology in the Archives Fellowship, Prindle Institute for Ethics, Depauw University, Greencastle, IN, 2016
Lord Baltimore Fellowship, Maryland Historical Society, 2015-2016
Society for Historians of the Early American Republic Graduate Student Award, 2015
College of Arts, Humanities, and Law Research Grant, University of Leicester, 2015
Peter Parish Memorial Award, Association of British American Nineteenth Century Historians, 2014
Dissertation Distinction, School of History & Anthropology, Queen’s University Belfast, 2012
Skills Engagement Award, Public History, Queen’s University Belfast, 2012
International Postgraduate Scholarship, Queen’s University Belfast, 2011-12

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