Allison Robinson has a passion for public history. She has worked at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello, James Madison’s Montpelier, and the Historic New Orleans Collection. Allison has two master’s degrees, one from the Winterthur Program in American Material Culture and another in history from the University of Chicago. Currently, she has been a Smithsonian Institution Predoctoral Fellow at the National Museum of American History and the Archives of American Art, and an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Women’s History and Public History.