Janika Dillon
PhD in World History
Janika Isakson Dillon is a Ph.D. student in World History at Northeastern University researching women enslavers in New England during Early America. Using the tools of public history and digital humanities, she has presented papers at the National Council of Public History, the Oral History Association, the New England World History Association, and the Mormon History Association. Janika works as a research fellow with the Harvard Slavery Remembrance Program and recently completed a year-long research internship with Boston’s Old North Church studying the records of an early-19th-Century women’s benevolent sewing society that made clothing for poor children in Boston. She has also done fieldwork with the Recovering Black History in New Hampshire Project, the Cyrus Dallin Museum in Arlington, MA, and the Susan B. Anthony Birthplace Museum in Adams, MA. Janika has a master’s degree in journalism from the Harvard Extension School and degrees in communications, organizational behavior, and international development from Brigham Young University.
Cohort: 2021
Research Interest: Progressive movements in the long 19th century, especially U.S. and international woman’s suffrage movements; the representation of Native Americans in public spaces; Boston history; education history; material studies; disability studies; pedagogical approaches to history; and digital humanities.
Fieldwork: The Cyrus E. Dallin Art Museum, Massachusetts Commission for the Blind, Susan B. Anthony Birthplace Museum, Harvard Business School Baker Library Special Collections, and the Longfellow Park LDS Chapel 50th Anniversary Celebration.