The team

Judith Giesberg, Professor of History, Villanova University, is Director.	Signe Peterson Fourmy, J.D./Ph.D., Villanova University, is Director of Research and Analysis.
Kristin Bridges, Graduate Assistant, graduated from the College of New Jersey with a BA in History and Anthropology.	Hannah Pfeifer, Graduate Assistant, is a Museum Educator at the Mercer Museum and Fonthill Castle.

 
 

Carly Beehler, Graduate Assistant, graduated from the University of Edinburgh.  At Villanova, she is focusing her studies on the American Civil War.

Margaret Jerrido, Archivist at Mother Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia, is  Consultant.	Adrienne Whaley, President, African American Genealogy Group, Philadelphia, is Consultant.

Program alumni include:

(Back row) James Chris Byrd, Bonnie Loden, (front row) Daniel Runyon, Margaret Strolle, Karyna Hlyvynska, 2018 Graduates of Villanova University's Master of Arts Program in History.

Ari Levine, MA, Villanova University, 2019, teaches middle school.

Katarina Andersen, MA, Villanova University, 2020, teaches middle school.