Laura Helton

Laura Helton is an Associate Professor of English and History at the University of Delaware, where she teaches African American print culture, archival theory, and public humanities. Her award-winning first book, Scattered and Fugitive Things: How Black Collectors Created Archives and Remade History (Columbia University Press, 2024), explores the emergence of African American archives and libraries in the early twentieth century. She recently co-edited Black Studies on 135th Street: The Founding and Future of the Schomburg Collection (Yale University Press, 2016) in conjunction with the centennial celebration of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. She was a Predoctoral Fellow at the Woodson Institute from 2013-2015.