Margalit Pelta-Pauls

Maggie Pelta-Pauls, an M.A. student in the Department of American Studies, has wide-ranging interests, including historic foodways, immigration history, the history of agricultural policy in the US, public history and historical preservation. As a Waxter Intern at Preservation Maryland, she also developed an interest in, and wrote about, topics in Jewish history in Maryland. In subsequent study, she has also focused on the preservation and interpretation of historic kitchens as intersections of race, gender and labor history. She earned a B.A. from the College of William and Mary, where her capstone research centered on the role of Colonial Williamsburg in the development of unaffiliated local museums.