Kate Steir
Kate Steir is Senior Curator and Head of Collections at Gunston Hall. She has a PhD from Georgetown University in History and has been at Gunston Hall since 2021. Before coming to Gunston Hall, she held curatorial and educational roles at a variety of museums including the Boston Children’s Museum, the National Museum of American History, and Tudor Place Historic House and Garden. Her dissertation entitled “Provisions of Power: Food and Scarcity in Jamaica 1730-1790” focused on the politics of food scarcity and it’s relationship to slavery in the context of the eighteenth-century Atlantic World. Dr. Steir's work as been published in numerous places including the blog for the National Museum of American History as well as in the American Historical Association's Perspectives, and she has been featured on several podcasts including Your Most Obedient and Humble Servant and The Tattooed Historian Show.
Zoie Horecny
Zoie Horecny is the Digital Washington Papers Editor at the Center for Digital History (CDH) at The George Washington Presidential Library. At the CDH, she works on projects related to the Washington Papers corpus such as Washington Day by Day and The Digital Encyclopedia of George Washington. Prior to joining the CDH, she contributed to the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition and The Papers of the Revolutionary Era Pinckney Statesman Digital Edition (UVA). She earned her MA in Public History and PhD in Early American History at the University of South Carolina. Her scholarly work is on slavery in the Early Republic with a transatlantic focus, and this work has been published in Journal of the South Carolina Historical Association and Journal of Slavery and Data Preservation.
