Ramin Ganeshram
Executive Director, Westport Museum for History & Culture; Author, The General's Cook
Ramin Ganeshram, is an award-winning journalist and historian and the Executive Director of the Westport Museum for History & Culture (formerly Westport Historical Society) in Westport, Connecticut. Ganeshram’s area of study is enslaved and mixed-race people in colonial and Early Federal American history. She spent ten years researching and writing The General’s Cook, about Hercules Posey, the chef enslaved by George Washington. In 2019, Ganeshram uncovered new evidence about the chef’s post-emancipation, solving a 218-year-old historical mystery. She continues that work today. Ganeshram was a 2022/23 Fellow at the Fred W. Smith Library for the Study of George Washington at Mount Vernon.
