Susanna Linsley attended Mount Holyoke College and completed her doctorate in early American history at the University of Michigan. She is the author of the article "Saving the Jew: Religious Toleration and the American Society for Meliorating the Condition of the Jews" published in the Journal of the Early Republic. She is currently the Director of Experiential Learning at the Webb Schools in Claremont, California and teaches classes on environmental humanities, gender studies, indigenous studies, and the American Revolution in the humanities department.