Elizabeth Sharpe has been the co-director of Historic Northampton since 2016. For twenty years she worked at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History where she was Deputy Assistant Director for Public Programs. She has taught women’s history and history of medicine at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and US history for the Clemente Course in the Humanities. She has been a research associate at the Five Colleges Women’s Studies Research Center and a scholar-in-residence at the Mount Holyoke College Archives and Special Collections. Her Ph.D. in History is from the University of Delaware; her master’s is from the Cooperstown Graduate Program in museum studies; and her bachelor’s degree is in American Studies from Hobart and William Smith Colleges. She is the author of In the Shadow of the Dam: The Aftermath of the Mill River Flood of 1874 and Amherst A to Z, 1759-2009.