Jessie Kindig (Ph.D. University of Washington, 2014) is a historian, editor, and literary agent based in New York City. She is currently a visiting scholar at Columbia University’s Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race and an associate agent at Roam Agency.
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Kindig’s research explores the cultural and political production of U.S. empire in the twentieth century and the political ethics of telling histories of violence. She is at work on a book analyzing wartime violence and U.S. culture during the Korean War, and her writing has appeared in Radical History Review, American Quarterly, and in the forthcoming Opposition to War: An Encyclopedia of Peace and Antiwar Movements (ABC-CLIO).

Kindig is a former assistant editor at the Journal of American History and its associated blog, Process. She is a founding member of the Histories of Violence collective and a past associate editor of the Pacific Northwest Labor and Civil Rights Projects housed at the University of Washington, a collection of oral-history web projects that chronicle movements for civil rights, labor, and social justice in the Northwest.