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McMahon, Kate

Museum Specialist & Historian

Kate McMahon is a Museum Specialist at the National Museum of African American History & Culture and leads research efforts at the Center for the Study of Global Slavery. She received her B.A. in Art History and M.A. in American and New England Studies from the University of Southern Maine. She completed her Ph.D. in History at Howard University in 2017. Her dissertation was entitled The Transnational Dimensions of Africans and African Americans in Northern New England, 1776-1865. Her current research explores New England’s connections to and complicity in the illegal slave trade and colonialism, 1809-1900. She is committed to exploring the living legacies of slavery and the slave trade in the present day and interpreting this history for a broad public through frequent public speaking engagements and scholarly production.

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  • Ph.D. in United States History, Howard University , Department of History, Dissertation: "The Transnational Dimensions of Africans and African Americans in Northern New England, 1776-1865" 2012 - 2017
  • M.A. in American and New England Studies, University of Southern Maine , American and New England Studies, Thesis: "The Historic African American Community of Peterborough in Warren, Maine" 2010 - 2012
  • B.A. in Art History, University of Southern Maine , Department of Art 2002 - 2009

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