Jessica Parr is a historian and digital humanist specializing in Early Modern Atlantic History, race, and Memory Studies. She's currently Director of the Public History MA program at Northeastern University (Boston, MA), where she's also affiliated with the NU Lab Center for Humanities and Computational Science and on the advisory board for NU's Centers for Digital Scholarship. Parr's first book, Inventing George Whitefield, was published in 2015 by the University Press of Mississippi. She is currently finishing a second monograph (under contract with the University of North Carolina Press) titled "Entangled Spaces, Entangled Places: Black Antislavery Politics and the Geographic Imaginaries of the British Atlantic World." Parr is jointly appointed for Trinity Term 2026 as a Visiting Research Fellow at Merton College. During her residencies, she will begin research for a third monograph exploring the spatialities of individuals in the Black Atlantic. Further information about her work can be found on her website: Jessica M. Parr, Ph.D. – Historian, Digital Humanist, And Archivist
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