Bio

Crystal Lynn Webster received her PhD from the W.E.B. Du Bois Department of African American Studies at University of Massachusetts Amherst. She was previously a long-term Mellon dissertation fellow at the Library Company of Philadelphia (2016-17) program in African American history. She has presented at national conferences including the Organization of American Historians and the Association for the Study of African American Life & History, and received first place writing awards from the National Council for Black Studies and the Association of Black Women Historians.