Robin Campbell

Dr. Campbell currently teaches history at the University at Albany and at Excelsior College, where she won the 2019-2020 Distinguished Faculty of the Year student services award. She previously spent 30 years as Chief Curator for the New York State Bureau of Historic Sites. She is also past-President of the Costume Society of America (https://www.costumesocietyamerica.com/). Her book Mistresses of the Transient Hearth: American Army Officers’ Wives and Material Culture, 1840-1880 was published by Routledge in 2005. Campbell has also contributed articles to several ABC-Clio publications on a range of topics, including the material life of enslaved people in the United States; American women at war; the role of consumer goods in shaping the New World, and daily life in antebellum America.