Staff & Affiliates

Lindsay M. Chervinsky: Lindsay M. Chervinsky, Ph.D. is an expert in the cabinet, presidential history, and U.S. government institutions. Before joining the Institute for Thomas Paine Studies as Scholar-in-Residence, she worked as a historian at the White House Historical Association. She received her B.A. in history and political science from the George Washington University, completed her masters and Ph.D. from the University of California, Davis, and was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for Presidential History at Southern Methodist University. Her book, The Cabinet: George Washington and the Creation of an American Institution, was published by Harvard University Press on April 7, 2020. When she’s not writing, researching, or speaking about history, she loves to hike with her husband and her dog, John Quincy Dog Adams. More information about her work can be found on her website and she can be contacted on Twitter at @lmchervinsky.

John C. Winters: John C. Winters, Ph.D. is an academic and public historian who studies the intersection of New York's Indigenous history, its premier history and ethnographic museums, and New Yorkers' popular historical memory. As a public historian, he worked in various curatorial and public programming capacities at The Roosevelt House Institute for Public Policy, George Washington's Mount Vernon, and the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian. More information can be found on his website, johncwinters.com.

Barry Goldberg Dr. Goldberg received his Ph.D. in History from the CUNY Graduate Center in 2017. His research examines the twentieth-century United States, with a focus on social and political, urban, and American Jewish history. Dr. Goldberg’s work has appeared in the Journal of Policy History, New York History, the American Jewish Archives Journal, the Gotham Center for New York History blog, and the Teaching United States History blog. As a graduate student, he taught U.S. history at Queens College and served as a Speechwriter at the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute. After graduating, he worked as a Postdoctoral Archival Fellow at the ITPS and an Educator at the Lower East Side Tenement Museum. Currently, he is a Research Fellow at the Rockefeller Archive Center. Follow him on Twitter @bpg269. He can be reached at bpgoldberg@gmail.com.

Alexandra Montgomery: Alexandra Montgomery specializes in North America during the era of the American Revolution. She is particularly interested in imperial ideologies, Native American power, and attempts to manipulate demography in general and migration flows in particular for political purposes throughout the eighteenth century world. Her Ph.D. dissertation (University of Pennsylvania 2019) explores eighteenth-century colonization schemes in the far northeastern coast of North America, a region which is today Maine and the Canadian maritime provinces of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and PEI.

Her master's thesis (Dalhousie University 2012) explored New England family migration to Nova Scotia and attempts to transform the colony into a loyal Protestant bulwark in the years before the American Revolution.

In addition to ITPS, Montgomery's work has been supported by the University of Pennsylvania, the American Philosophical Society, the New York Public Library, the New England Regional Fellowship Consortium, the Massachusetts Historical Society, and the McNeil Center for Early American Studies.

Miriam Liebman: Miriam Liebman is a History Ph.D. Candidate in early American history at the Graduate Center, CUNY. Her dissertation, "A Tale of Two Cities: American Women in London and Paris, 1780-1800," argues that elite American women acted in diplomatic capacities abroad in the Age of Revolutions. Her dissertation research has received support from the Ph.D. Program in History at the Graduate Center, the Early Research Initiative in American Studies, the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, the National Society of Colonial Dames in the State of New York, the Colonial Dames of America, and the Massachusetts Historical Society. Additionally, she teaches courses in American history at Queens College, CUNY.