Rachel C Kirby, PhD

Cultural Historian • Public Humanities Scholar • Lecturer

Publications


Peer-Reviewed Publications
  • Rachel C. Kirby and Anthony Bak Buccitelli, "'The Quintessence of the Humanities': Folklore and Mythology at Harvard." In Folklore in the United States and Canada: An Institutional History, eds. Patricia Sawin and Rosemary  Lévy Zumwalt. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2020.
  • "Unenslaved through Art: Rice Culture Paintings by Jonathan Green." Panorama: Journal of the Association of Historians of American Art. Vol. 6, No. 1 (Spring 2020).
Book Reviews
  • Review of Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina, edited by Adrienne Spinozzi and Praise Songs for Dave the Potter: Art and Poetry for David Drake, with Artwork by Jonathan Green and Poetry by Glenis Redmond, edited by P. Gabrielle Foreman and foreword by Kwame Dawes. Afterword by Evie Shockley. Journal of Southern History Vol 90, No 1 (February 2024), 149-150.
Public Scholarship 
The photograph is from the Carolina Lowcountry and Atlantic World conference in 2019. The poster shows Jonathan Green's painting Rice Sustenance.