Renee Romano is the Robert S. Danforth Professor of History and Professor of Comparative American Studies and Africana Studies at Oberlin College in Ohio and adjunct professor of Museum Studies at CUNY School of Professional Studies. A specialist in recent American cultural and political history and in the field of historical memory, she explores the creation, contestation, and promotion of different narratives of America’s racial history. She is the author of Racial Reckoning; Reopening America’s Civil Rights Trials (2014) and Race Mixing: Black-White Marriage in Postwar America (2003), as well as the coeditor of three collections: Historians on Hamilton: How a Blockbuster Musical Is Restaging America’s Past (2018); Doing Recent History (2012); and The Civil Rights Movement in American Memory (2006). She has served as a consultant for the New-York Historical Society, the Wilson Bruce Evans Home Historical Society, the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, and the May 4th Visitor’s Center at Kent State University. While at Bard Graduate Center, she will be researching sites of Confederate memory outside the South, especially focusing on the commemoration of Daniel Decatur Emmett, a nineteenth-century blackface performer and the composer of “Dixie.”