Jennifer L. Anderson

Interests:  public history, local history, Caribbean history, issues of race and class, slavery, colonialism, labor, material culture, commodities, environmental history.

generally, my scholarly interests include Native history, settler-colonialism, agriculture, maritime industries (i.e. whaling, fishing, oystering, ship building, merchant trade, etc.), labor,  migration, provisioning, and the environmental impacts of these activities. To encourage discussion of these themes, Anya Zilberstein and I co-organized a conference, entitled "Empowering Appetites: The Political Economy and Culture of Food in the Early Atlantic," held at the Huntington Library (San Marino, CA) in 2018. We are currently editing the papers which will appear in Early American Studies in Spring 2021. As an Editor of the Long Island History Journal, I also produced special issues on the history of whaling on Long Island and local African American & Native American heritage sites.