Fall 2021 Newsletter

Hope continues to split her time between the American Historical Association and the Urban History Association. In her work at the AHA, which is grant funded and scheduled to end next spring, Hope coordinates efforts related to the Career Diversity for Historians Initiative. Her work at the UHA, where she is Executive Director, is a bit more varied. She's currently celebrating the successful culmination of the UHA's Urban History Month-- a month-long series of online panels, workshops, and discussions organized to highlight new scholarship and foster new connections and collaborations among participants. She's looking forward to some time off at the end of the month, and, in early January, the AHA's annual meeting in New Orleans.

When she's not working as the principal investigator on a Historic Resource Study for the Weir Farm National Historical Park, Rachel teaches history classes at DePaul University. Over the last year, she has also led virtual walking tours, seminars on the history of policing in Chicago, and teacher programs on labor history for the Newberry Library. She is also working on a number of digital projects with local history organizations. As a board member of the National Council on Public History, Rachel is looking forward to traveling to Montreal in March to join the first in-person annual meeting of the organization since 2019.