Mackenzie Tor

Biography

Mackenzie Tor is a PhD Candidate in History at the University of Missouri and a PhD Fellow at the Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy. She received her BA in History & Italian from Providence College and her MA in History from Mizzou. Her dissertation, “Spirited Struggles: The Black Temperance Movement in Nineteenth-Century America,” examines how African American men and women entwined their promotion of sobriety with their campaigns for abolition, equal rights, and citizenship during the long nineteenth century. Her research has appeared in the Journal of the Early Republic and has been supported by the McNeil Center for Early American Studies, the American Antiquarian Society, the New England Regional Fellowship Consortium, and the Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy. When not hard at work, Mackenzie enjoys reading, crafting, practicing yoga, and cheering on her favorite Boston sports teams.