Timothy Hastings

Ph.D. Candidate (ABD), Public History Student

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EDUCATION

  • M.A. History and Archives, Keene State College (2021)
  • B.S. Biology, Keene State College (2013)

FIELDS

  • Early American History (pre-1865)
  • Public History
  • Atlantic World Slavery and the African Diaspora

BACKGROUND

Tim Hastings is a doctoral candidate at the University of Massachusetts Amherst studying early American history, public history, and Atlantic World slavery and the African Diaspora. His dissertation, “New Hampshire’s Atlantic World: Slavery, Freedom, and Community,” is a social and cultural history of slavery in New Hampshire during the long eighteenth century and foregrounds the lived experiences of the enslaved. He has received research fellowships through Historic Deerfield, the Massachusetts Historical Society, and the New England Regional Fellowship Consortium (NERFC). 

Tim also has worked on two public history projects, Recovering Black History in the Monadnock Region and Black Heritage Trail New Hampshire. Currently, he is a Study Center Research Fellow with Historic New England examining laborers, workers, and domestic servants connected to Langdon House in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

Research Areas

Public History,
United States