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Jessica Parr serves as Professor of the Practice in History and Director of Public History at Northeastern University's College of Social Sciences and Humanities, Department of History, specializing in the Early Modern Atlantic, race and memory of the long eighteenth century, and digital humanities.
Her educational credentials include a PhD and MA in History from the University of New Hampshire at Durham (2012), complemented by an MA in History, MS in Archives Management, and BA in History from Simmons College.
Dr. Parr's research critically examines Slavery and Abolition through Black Antislavery Politics and geographies of resistance, analyzing how activists like Phillis Wheatley and David Walker navigated structures of white supremacy from 1760–1860. She integrates critical race theory with digital humanities methodologies to reconstruct archival narratives, notably in her work on George Whitefield's contested legacy as a religious icon shaped by revivalism and enslaved communities.
Her scholarly recognition includes:
- Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (2015)
- John Hope Franklin Institute Fellow (Duke University)
- Boston Athenaeum Fellow
- Congregational Library Fellow
- Schomburg Center Fellow
- Gilder-Lehrman Institute Fellow
- Methodist Archives Fellow (Drew University)
- Caroliana Society Fellow
- Bright Institute Fellow (Knox College)
- National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow
Research funding from these institutions supports her current monograph Entangled Places: Black Antislavery Politics and the Geographic Imaginaries of the British Atlantic World (UNC Press). As Global Team leader for the award-winning The Programming Historian, Member of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, and former president of the New England Historical Association, she bridges archival scholarship with digital innovation through Northeastern's NULab for Digital Humanities and Computational Social Science.
