Chestertown Education

The Starr Center Announces 2020-2021 Patrick Henry Writing Fellow

By Steve Atkinson / May 27, 2020

The Starr Center Announces Dr. Judith Ridner as the 2020-2021 Patrick Henry Writing Fellow!

Dr. Judith Ridner is a historian of early America, with additional interests in the American frontier, ethnicity and immigration, oral and public history, and digital history at Mississippi State University. Her current book, “Clothing the Babel: The Material Culture of Ethnic Identity in Early America,” uses visual and material culture to explore the construction of white ethnic identities in the early mid-Atlantic.

Photo: Dr. Judith Ridner
Dr. Judith Ridner – Contributed Photo
As a digital humanist, she was recently part of two community-based oral and public history projects, including the Starkville Civil Rights Project. That project created the website “A Shaky Truce: Civil Rights Struggles in Starkville, MS, 1960-1980,” which uses oral histories and digitized archival documents to narrate the story of school desegregation and the struggle for racial justice here in Starkville and at Mississippi State University.

Congratulations to Dr. Ridner! The Starr Center is proud to continue its mission to connect Washington College students and the Chestertown community to brilliant scholars of the American experience.

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