Benvenuto!

I’m Alessandra, an educator and writer living in Louisville, Kentucky. In 2018, I graduated from the University of Colorado at Boulder with a Ph.D. in history. I am currently a member of the Upper School Faculty at Louisville Collegiate School, where I teach American Studies and support community service and outreach programs.

In 2017-’18 I received a Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship for my current book project, The Iron Horse in Indian Country: Native Americans and Railroads in the U.S. West (under contract, Oxford University Press). In 2018-’19 I was the Bill and Rita Clements Fellow for Southwest Studies at Southern Methodist University. Outside of my work with the bright and hardworking students at Collegiate, I am revising my book manuscript for publication and continue my work with an award-winning public history initiative titled Railroads in Native America. See a recent write up in High Country News about Railroads in Native America.

Questions?

Ideas?

Opportunities for collaboration?

You can reach me at alessandra.n.link {at} gmail.com.