Amanda Moniz

Amanda Moniz is the David M. Rubenstein Curator of Philanthropy at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 2008 and then held a Cassius Marcellus Clay Postdoctoral Fellowship at Yale University. Her book, From Empire to Humanity: The American Revolution and the Origins of Humanitarianism, was awarded ARNOVA’S inaugural Peter Dobkin Hall History of Philanthropy Book Prize. She is currently working on a biography of Isabella Graham, the Scottish immigrant widow who transformed philanthropy in early-national New York City.