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Kelsey Alejandra Moore serves as Assistant Professor of History and Black Studies at Georgetown University, holding primary appointment in the Department of History and secondary appointment in the Department of Black Studies. She is designated as a Provost’s Distinguished Faculty Fellow, recognizing exceptional scholarly contributions to her field.
Her academic credentials include:
- Ph.D. in History from Johns Hopkins University
- M.A. in History from Johns Hopkins University
- Dual B.A. in Africana Studies and Public Policy from New York University, graduating summa cum laude as 2019 Valedictorian of the College of Arts and Science
Moore specializes in 20th-century rural Black southern histories, examining intersections of race, religion, culture, and development through the lens of spiritual, ecological, and epistemic violence. Her work interrogates how modernization projects like South Carolina's Santee-Cooper Hydroelectric and Navigation Project disrupted Black and indigenous communities' relationships with time, space, and place. Central to her research is the preservation of Conjure knowledge systems and black place-making practices, manifested through innovative digital humanities projects that remap submerged histories.
Her scholarly recognition includes:
- Provost’s Distinguished Faculty Fellowship at Georgetown University
- Inaugural Crossroads Research Fellowship at Princeton University (2022-2023)
- Valedictorian honors at New York University (2019)
Moore's research has secured institutional support from the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African American and African Studies at the University of Virginia and the South Caroliniana Library at the University of South Carolina. She leads digital initiatives including "We Just Don’t Trust Our Memories to Stone," "a fugitive’s map of the black south," and "finding the dead: another kind of fugitive map"—projects that reconstruct flooded cemeteries and reimagine Black spatial relationships in the American South.
