KENDRA T. FIELD

is an Associate Professor of History and Director of the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy at Tufts University. Field is the author of Growing Up with the Country: Family, Race, and Nation after the Civil War (Yale University Press, January 2018). The book traces her ancestors’ migratory lives between the Civil War and the Great Migration. Field also served as Assistant Editor to David Levering Lewis' W.E.B. Du Bois: A Biography (Henry Holt, 2009). Field's current book project is about the African American genealogical question from the Middle Passage through the present.

Field has been awarded fellowships from the Ford Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Huntington Library, and Harvard University's Charles Warren Center in American History. Field's recent articles have appeared in the Journal of American History, the Western Historical Quarterly, and Transition. She is the recipient of the Western Writers of America's, 2017 Spur Award for Best Western Short Nonfiction, the 2016 Boahen-Wilks Prize, and the OAH's Huggins-Quarles Award. Field has advised and appeared in historical documentaries including Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s “The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross" (2013) and "Roots: A History Revealed" (2016).

Field received her Ph.D. in American History from New York University. She also holds a Master's in Public Policy from Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government and a B.A. from Williams College. Previously, Field served as Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, Riverside, and worked in education and the non-profit sector in Boston and New York.

SARAH PINTO

is Professor of Anthropology at Tufts University, where she teaches and writes about gender, medicine, kinship, and the relationship between interventions, healing, and intimate lives, with a regional focus on South Asia.  Her research has focused on psychiatry in India and its gendered dynamics, reproduction and its intimate labors in rural India, caste, and the history of hysteria in India, and she is interested in bringing concepts of movement and the work of visual artists and choreographers to bear on contemporary social life and theory.  She is author of Where There Is No Midwife: Birth and Loss in Rural India (Berghahn Books 2008), Daughters of Parvati: Women and Madness in Contemporary India (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012), and the forthcoming The Doctor and Mrs. A.: Ethics and Counter-Ethics in an Indian Dream Analysis (Women Unlimited and Fordham University Press, 2019), and a co-editor of Postcolonial Disorders (University of California Press, 2008).

Pinto's work has been funded by the Social Science Research Council, the American Institute of Indian Studies, the American Council of Learned Societies, and Tufts University. She was an ACLS Frederick Burkhardt Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and her book Daughters of Parvati received the Eileen Basker Memorial Prize from the Society of Medical Anthropology.

Pinto received her Ph.D. in Anthropology from Princeton University and her BA in Anthropology from Bryn Mawr College.  Previously, she held a NIMH-supported postdoctoral fellowship in Harvard University's Department of Social Medicine.