Erin Greenwald started the Working Historian in 2024 after seventeen years of professional practice. Most recently, Greenwald served as Vice President of Public Programs at the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities (LEH), where she oversaw a staff of seven charged with statewide program development and implementation, grantmaking, and publishing. At the LEH, Greenwald also served as Editor in Chief of 64 Parishes magazine and 64parishes.org. During her tenure, 64 Parishes received local, regional, and national journalism awards and was named best magazine three years running by Louisiana’s oldest press club association.

 

Prior to joining the LEH, Greenwald served as curator of programs at the New Orleans Museum of Art, organizing and implementing the weekly Friday Nights at NOMA series as well as major community events such as Bastille Day and Japan Fest. From 2007 to 2017, Greenwald worked for the Historic New Orleans Collection (HNOC), beginning as an exhibition editor and working her way up to senior curator and historian. She has curated numerous exhibitions, including Purchased Lives: New Orleans and the Domestic Slave Trade, which received a Leadership in History Award of Merit from the American Association of State and Local History and went on to travel the country under a competitive exhibition grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

 

Greenwald is the author of Marc-Antoine Caillot and the Company of the Indies in Louisiana (LSU Press, 2016) and editor of A Company Man: The Remarkable French-Atlantic Voyage of a Clerk for the Company of the Indies (HNOC, 2013) and New Orleans: The Founding Era (HNOC, 2018).

 

Specializing in French Atlantic, Louisiana, New Orleans, and early American history, Greenwald holds a PhD from Ohio State University. She has served on numerous city, state, and national boards and commissions, including the board of the American Hisorical Association, where she is currently a member of the Research Division.

 

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