Dr. Krystyn Moon

Krystyn Moon is a professor of History and American Studies at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Virginia. Her teaching and research focus on nineteenth- and twentieth-century American history, and she has worked on several public history projects in our region. These include the following: “Finding the Fort: African American History and Memory at Fort Ward Historic Park,” a report on a historic neighborhood that Alexandria annexed from Fairfax County in 1952; “Immigrant Alexandria: Past, Present and Future,” an oral history project with post 1965-immigrants and refugees funded by Virginia Humanities; and “Documenting Exclusion and Resilience,” a website dedicated to recording racial covenants in Northern Virginia and the responses by various marginalized communities. Finally, she is the author of the forthcoming book, Proximity to Power: Rethinking Race and Place in Northern Virginia, which will be published with UNC Press in spring 2025.