Community Update

NEW HISTORY PROFESSOR JOINS FACULTY OF
ACHLS

            Dr. Jessica
Parr has joined the faculty of The American College of History
and Legal Studies (ACHLS) as the new Professor of History.  ACHLS is the nation’s first and only
college dedicated exclusively to the study of history.

            Dr. Parr specializes in the history of race and religion
in the Early Modern Atlantic World.  Her
first book, Imagining George Whitefield: Race, Revivalism, and the Origins
of a Religious Icon, is forthcoming from the University Press of
Mississippi.  Her work has received a
number of fellowships and grants, including from the Boston Athenaeum, the
Munson Institute, and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of Early American History.

            Dr. Parr is also an editor for H-Atlantic, an international online
discussion list for Atlantic World History from 1500 to 1800.  In addition, she is
a contributor to the More Than a Map Project, a smartphone application that
allows users to locate, experience, and create African American history from
the palm of their hand.

            Prior to joining ACHLS, Dr. Parr taught at a number of
other area colleges, including the University of New Hampshire at Manchester and
Granite State College.

            Dr. Parr's educational background is impressive.  She received her Ph.D. in History (2012) from
the University of New Hampshire at Durham; an M.A. in History (2012), also from
UNH; an M.A. in History (2005) from the Simmons College Graduate School of Arts
and Sciences; and an M.S. in Archives Management (2005) from Simmons College
Graduate School of Library and Information Sciences.  She received her B.A. in History in 2000, with
departmental honors, from Simmons College.