Zara Anishanslin

Zara Anishanslin is a distinguished academic with extensive experience in the fields of history and art history. Currently serving as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the David Center for the American Revolution at the American Philosophical Society since August 2023, Zara has held multiple academic positions, including Associate Professor and Assistant Professor at the University of Delaware since 2016. Previous roles include Mellon/ACLS Scholars & Society Fellow at the American Council of Learned Societies (2021-2023), and a fellow at Princeton University and the McNeil Center for Early American Studies. Zara's educational background includes a Ph.D. in History of American Civilization from the University of Delaware, alongside bachelor's degrees in History and Comparative Literature from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.