Ellen Noonan

Clinical Associate Professor of History; Director, Archives and Public History Program

Education

New York University, PhD 2002

Areas of Research/Interest

United States: African-American history; cultural history; public history; history education; digital humanities.

BIO

Ellen Noonan has spent more than two decades working as a historian, media producer, and instructional designer. She has taught in NYU’s Archives and Public History Program since 2011 and directed it since 2016. In her prior work at the American Social History Project, she created and led numerous professional development and curriculum development programs serving social studies teachers in the New York City public schools, as well as leading and contributing to the creation of numerous public history and history education websites.

Books

  • The Strange Career of Porgy and Bess: Race, Culture, and America’s Most Famous Opera
    University of North Carolina Press, 2012
    George C. Rogers, Jr. prize for best book on South Carolina History, South Carolina Historical Society, 2013
    Cover of Porgy and Bess
  • Who Built America: Working People and the Nation’s Economy, Politics, Culture, and Society, 3rd edition
    Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2007
    Supervising Editor
    Cover of Who Built America

Articles

  • Hearing Gershwin’s New York
    The Cambridge Companion to Gershwin
    Cambridge University Press, 2019: 16-28.
  • The History Textbook, Born Digital
    Radical History Review
    Volume 2013, Number 117: 131-138

Digital Media

Lead content developer, Mission US (2014-2016)

Executive Producer, Who Built America Badges for History Education (2012-2016)

Instructional Designer and Curriculum Developer, Zoom In (2012-2015)

Executive Producer, Social History for Every Classroom (2009-2016)

Producer, The September 11 Digital Archive (2001-2003)

Associate Director, History Matters: The U.S. Survey on the Web (1999-2016)

Writer, The Lost Museum (1999-2002)