Moira Hinderer

phone: (410) 516-4011   email: mhinder1@jhu.edu

Moira Hinderer received her Ph.D. from the Department of History at the University of Chicago in 2007.  Her dissertation, “Making African American Childhood: Chicago, 1915-1945,” examines the roles that young people and ideas about childhood played in strategies of racial resistance in twentieth-century Chicago.  She is currently writing an article that examines the negotiations and production of knowledge between African American social scientists and the poor Black families they studied during the 1940s.

She is currently the Diaspora Pathways Archival Access Project Manager & Postdoctoral Fellow in the Center for African Studies and the Sheridan Libraries.  The DPAAP has received generous funding from the Mellon Foundation to uncover “hidden collections” in Baltimore’s African American history.  For the next three years the DPAAP will employ a team of advanced undergraduate and graduate students from throughout the Baltimore metropolitan area to uncover, describe, and make accessible the archival holdings of the Afro American Newspapers.  She previously worked on the Mapping the Stacks project at the University of Chicago, which produced the first full survey of the archival holdings of the Chicago Defender Newspaper.