Amanda Kleintop – Student Researcher

Amanda Kleintop, a 2011 graduate of the University of Richmond, discusses her senior project at the University of Richmond.  Amanda graduated as an Honors History and Leadership Studies double major. The title of the project is “Networks of Resistance: Black Virginians Remember Civil War Loyalties,” and she worked on the project for about a year with the assistance of an Arts and Sciences Summer Fellowship.  Amanda is currently working for the for the Virginia Sesquicentennial Commission (for the 150th anniversary of the Civil War), and she plans to apply to graduate schools for a Ph.D. in Southern history.