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Rebecca Graham Adjunct Professorial Lecturer History

Degrees
PhD, History, American University
MA, Public History, American University
BA, History and Philosophy, Mount Holyoke College

Bio
Rebecca Brenner Graham is a History Teacher at the Madeira School and an Adjunct Professorial Lecturer at American University. Her first book, Dear Miss Perkins: A Story of Frances Perkins’s Efforts to Aid Refugees from Nazi Germany (Kensington, 2025), received support from a Cokie Roberts Fellowship from the National Archives Foundation and a Rubenstein Center Research Fellowship from the White House Historical Association. She has published in The Washington Post, Time, Slate, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere.
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Teaching

Spring 2024

  • HIST-215 Soc Forces Shaped Amer