Emily Swafford

Emily Swafford is manager of academic affairs at the American Historical Association, where she coordinates the Mellon-funded Career Diversity for Historians initiative. She also staffs the AHA’s Teaching Division and supports their work on history education at the K-12, undergraduate, and graduate level. She earned a PhD in 20th-century US history at the University of Chicago. Her book manuscript chronicles the transnational origins of US military family policy in the early Cold War.