Hope Mcgrath Email & Phone Number

New Haven, Ct, Us

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Senior staff person and researcher for university-wide effort to understand and communicate about Yale’s historical associations with slavery, the slave trade, and abolition. Look for *Yale and Slavery: A History,* by David W. Blight with the Yale and Slavery Research Project, in your local and online booksellers!

I wrote major speeches, op-eds, magazine and newspaper articles, campaign messages, video and podcast scripts, e-mails to the university community, correspondence, board reports, and other communications for the president of Yale. Opinion pieces successfully placed in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The Hill, Chronicle of Higher Education, World Economic Forum blog, and international publications.

Taught an undergraduate history seminar at Penn, “Slavery and the Civil War."

Working with senior leadership, faculty and development professionals, I planned and executed stewardship materials, solicitations, remarks, brochures, special correspondence, progress reports, and other written materials for Penn Medicine's most generous donors.

Middletown, Delaware, United States

In my advancement role, I served as assistant editor of the school magazine, produced news content for the school's website, and served as primary copy editor for advancement office communications. As an English and history teacher, I developed original curriculum for and taught four different courses (grades 9-12) in literature and history, in addition to fulfilling other responsibilities as a boarding school faculty member.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), American History (United States)

Dissertation: “An Army of Working Men: Military Labor and the Construction of American Empire, 1865 to 1915" Committee: Stephanie McCurry.

B.A., English, History