Friends of the APS Predoctoral Fellow
Laura Nelson is a PhD candidate in history at Princeton University focusing on African American and legal history in the nineteenth-century United States. Her dissertation examines how Black Philadelphians helped create the institutions, relationships, and everyday legal practices through which they defined freedom, belonging, and community post-Revolutionary Philadelphia. She is also committed to public history, having interned at the New York Historical, the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, and multiple projects in New Jersey and Georgia.