Prithi Kanakamedala is an Associate Professor of History at Bronx Community College. She has published on 19th-century material culture of the Black Atlantic, racial fluidity and citizenship in 19th-century New York, and print activism in Brooklyn’s early free Black communities. Dr. Kanakamedala is also a faculty member in the M.A. in Liberal Studies Program at CUNY Graduate Center where she teaches in the New York Studies concentration. As a public historian, she has worked with a range of cultural organizations in New York City. She is originally from Liverpool, England.