DR. Ashley Cheyemi McNeil
DIRECTOR OF EDUCATION & RESEARCH (ACLS LEADING EDGE FELLOW)
Dr. Ashley Cheyemi McNeil (she/her) is a public scholar and humanist with extensive experience working with cross-disciplinary teams of community partners, scholars, and stakeholders to create public-facing projects that disseminate stories and research. Her academic training is in Literary Studies and American Studies, in which she has a bi-national dual-PhD. In her postdoctoral work she helped build a Mellon-funded interdisciplinary humanities PhD program and was awarded a Leading Edge fellowship through the American Council of Learned Societies. She serves as the Director of Education and Research at FSF.