Zabin awarded competitive fellowships regarding Boston Massacre

Serena Zabin, Associate Professor of History, has been awarded an American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Fellowship in addition to a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) fellowship to finish her book on the Boston Massacre, Occupying Boston: An Intimate History of the Boston Massacre. Zabin’s book uncovers the extensive personal interactions between troops and their families and townspeople, and challenges the political spin put on the “massacre” that created its iconic place on the road to the American Revolution. In addition to deep archival and documentary research, Zabin and Carleton students used digital tools to map the personal networks in colonial Boston that, she argues, help to explain the Massacre’s origins and effects. Notably, Zabin’s awards come in funding cycles when the NEH funded only 7.5% and the ACLS funded less than 7% of the fellowship proposals received.