Emelia Abbe Robertson is a scholar of Early America and the long eighteenth-century. Her research is interested in the ways the built environments of the early republic – such as taverns, ships, hospitals, plantations, & court houses – were vital to processes of subject-making and un-making under colonialism.
She has worked in the public humanities as a project manager for the Michigan Humanities Council, an independent consultant for public humanities course design, and as an advocate for Publicly Active Graduate Education with the Imagining America Consortium.
She currently works for the Jamestown Rediscovery Foundation in Virginia. She holds a PhD in English with a concentration in early American studies from the University of Michigan, and an MA in English Literature from the University of Virginia. She received a dual BA in English and Religious Studies from Butler University.