Simone Gulliver

Simone Gulliver is a second-year doctoral student studying cultural histories of slavery in the early US Republic. She is interested in Gradual Abolition across the American Northeast and the rise of American popular culture as intersecting phenomena. She anchors her research in her public history training, which includes curatorial positions with the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture and the Baltimore Museum of Art. Prior to Penn, Simone received a degree in History and English Language & Literature from the University of Chicago.