“In contempt and oblivion” - Ezra Stiles, Census Making, and Indian Erasure in New England with Jason Mancini

This Monday’s at Beinecke presentation by Jason Mancini draws from from the Ezra Stiles Papers. Jason Mancini is the Executive Director of CT Humanities. He was previously the Executive Director of the Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center, and was with the museum in different capacities from 1995 to 2017. He is a lifelong Connecticut resident.

Mancini has a Ph.D., as well as an M.A., in Anthropology from the University of Connecticut. He has been a Visiting Assistant Professor of History at Brown University and an Adjunct Instructor in the Department of Anthropology at UConn. He is passionate about the humanities, history, culture, and the arts.