Gilder Lehrman Center Staff

The Yale & Slavery Research Project is managed by the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at the MacMillan Center at Yale.

David Blight

Chair of the Yale & Slavery Working Group
Sterling Professor of History, of African American Studies, and of American Studies, Department of History
Director, Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale

Daisha Brabham

Director of Education and Public Outreach

Melissa McGrath

Administrative Assistant

Lisa Monroe

Project Manager, “Legacies of American Slavery: Reckoning with the Past,” a collaborative program with the Council of Independent Colleges

Daniel Vieira

Media Project Manager

Michelle Zacks

Associate Director