Jessica Parr is a Lecturer in History at Simmons College, and an Affiliate Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies at the University of New Hampshire at Durham. She specializes in the Early Modern Black Atlantic World, with focuses on race, religion, memory studies, and digital history. Parr is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and has received fellowships from the Boston Athenaeum, Duke University, the Congregational Library, Mystic Seaport, and the Gilder-Lehrman Institute. From 2016-2017, she worked on the $1.3 million IMLS-funded PLACE Project, an interdisciplinary team at the University of New Hampshire, Durham, that designed and built a geospatial interface for digital collections. She was a participant in the NEH’s 2016 Doing Digital History Institute at George Mason University, and is a consultant on the NEH-funded project, “Go Local,” which partners with small museums and libraries in Southern Maine to help build their capacity for digital collections and exhibits. Parr is currently the Managing Editor for The Programming Historian, and writes for The Junto: a Group Blog for Early American History, as well as Black Perspectives, the online journal of the African-American Intellectual History Society. Her first book, Inventing George Whitefield: Race, Revivalism, and the Making of a Religious Icon was published in 2015 by the University Press of Mississippi. The paperback was released in 2016.