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Renee Romano serves as the Robert S. Danforth Professor of History and Professor of Comparative American Studies and Africana Studies at Oberlin College, Ohio, and holds an adjunct professorship in Museum Studies at CUNY School of Professional Studies. During Fall 2024, she was a Visiting Fellow at Bard Graduate Center, conducting research on Confederate memory sites outside the Southern United States with specific focus on Daniel Decatur Emmett—the 19th-century blackface performer and composer of "Dixie".
Her scholarly work critically examines the construction and contestation of America's racial narratives through cultural and political history lenses. Key research areas include civil rights memory, postwar interracial marriage dynamics, and the public representation of race in contemporary culture, as demonstrated in her monographs Racial Reckoning: Reopening America's Civil Rights Trials (2014) and Race Mixing: Black-White Marriage in Postwar America (2003). She has further shaped discourse through co-edited volumes like Historians on Hamilton: How a Blockbuster Musical Is Restaging America's Past (2018), analyzing how popular media reframes historical understanding.
Romano's expertise is sought by major cultural institutions including the New-York Historical Society, Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, Wilson Bruce Evans Home Historical Society, and Kent State University's May 4th Visitor’s Center, where she consults on historical interpretation and exhibition development. While specific grants and awards aren't detailed in available materials, her influential publications and high-profile consultancies underscore her significant contributions to American historical studies and public memory scholarship.
