Britt M. Rusert

Amherst, MA
United States

Elected to AAS

April 2022

Fellowships

2011-12: Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson Fellowship
Project: Experiments in Freedom: Black Popular Science and the Struggle against Slavery
2024-25: AAS-National Endowment for the Humanities Long-Term Fellowship
Project: The Afric-American Picture Gallery: Imagining Black Art, circa 1859

Books Based on Fellowship Research

Fugitive Science: Empiricism and Freedom in Early African American Culture

New York University Press, 2017

Public Programs

We Protect Us: Early American Histories of Mutual Aid and Community Care

September 1, 2022