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Research Librarian
Samantha Snyder the Research Librarian and Manager of the Library Fellowships Program at the George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon, and an early American women’s historian. In her role as Research Librarian, Snyder engages with Mount Vernon staff, research fellows, and the general public on all aspects of their research. She also manages the Library Research Fellowship program, which brings in scholars from across the world to do extensive research on topics relating to George Washington, and more broadly, the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. She is currently writing a biography of Elizabeth Willing Powel, a powerful Philadelphian woman, who was a political confidante of George Washington and a number of the other founding fathers. . Snyder earned her MA in History from George Mason University, her MLIS, and BA in English from the University of Wisconsin- Madison.
