Prithi Kanakamedala

Prithi Kanakamedala is an Assistant Professor of History at Bronx Community College. Her research interests include the Black Atlantic, 19th-century free Black communities in Brooklyn and New York, race and citizenship in the early republic, and the material culture of New York City. As a public historian she has worked with Danspace Project, Place Matters, Brooklyn Historical Society, Weeksville Heritage Center, and Irondale Ensemble Project. She curated the semi-permanent history exhibit Brooklyn Abolitionists at the Brooklyn Historical Society and served as Historian for the larger public history project "In Pursuit of Freedom" which examines Brooklyn’s anti-slavery movement. Prithi holds a Ph.D. from the University of Sussex and is originally from Liverpool, England.