Speakers
- Aston Gonzalez
- Salisbury University, Assistant Professor of History
Aston Gonzalez is an Assistant Professor of History at Salisbury University. After graduating with his Ph.D. in History at the University of Michigan, he completed a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship through the Library Company of Philadelphia’s Program in African American History. His book manuscript, Visualizing Equality: African American Champions of Race, Rights, and Visual Culture, is forthcoming from the University of North Carolina Press. His articles appear in Slavery & Abolition, The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, and Social Dynamics: A Journal of African Studies. Forthcoming chapters of his will appear in Visions of Glory: The Civil War in Word and Image (University of Georgia Press) and African American Literature in Transition, 1750-2015: Volume 2, 1800-1830 (Cambridge University Press). He has won awards from Duke University, Emory University, the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, the Organization of American Historians, and the Maryland Historical Society.