Affiliated Faculty and Students

The Center for the Study of Slavery shapes its work thanks to the creativity of our talented faculty and students.

Founding Director

Adam Rothman is Professor in the History Department at Georgetown University and curator of the Georgetown Slavery Archive. He is the author of Slave Country: American Expansion and the Origins of the Deep South and Beyond Freedom’s Reach: A Kidnapping in the Twilight of Slavery, which won the American Civil War Museum’s book prize and several other awards. He is co-editor with Dr. Elsa Barraza Mendoza of Facing Georgetown’s History: A Reader in Slavery, Memory, and Reconciliation, published by Georgetown University Press in 2021. He teaches courses in slavery, U.S. History, and archival studies. He was a member of Georgetown’s Working Group on Slavery, Memory, and Reconciliation.

Adam Rothman, a white man in a suit with dark blonde hair and beard, stands in front of a projected image of an old document.

Affiliated Faculty

Graduate Students

Undergraduate Students

Katya Tolunsky

Katya Tolunsky is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences majoring in American Studies and Government with a minor in History. She is passionate about making Georgetown’s institutional history public and accessible and confronting the university’s legacy of enslavement. Beyond working as a research assistant, Katya serves as a University tour guide with Blue & Gray, is active in the Georgetown ACLU chapter, and works as a peer career counselor at the Cawley Career Center.