Alyssa Toby Fahringer
Alyssa Toby Fahringer
Librarian II
Alyssa is the Digital Scholarship Consultant for George Mason University Libraries' Data and Digital Scholarship Services. In this role she collaborates with students and faculty on digital humanities-based methods and projects. She teaches classroom instruction sessions, leads workshops, and provides consultations to researchers who are engaging in digital scholarship. Alyssa works closely with the researchers at the Center for Mason Legacies on their digital public history projects.
Current Research
Alyssa has a PhD in American history with minor fields in digital humanities and public history. Her dissertation, "'With All Her Sad Disasters, What Do We See in this City?': Reconstruction, Race, and the Politics of Disaster in Richmond, 1870-1918," examines three disasters that occurred in Richmond in 1870 and uses them as a lens to understand the history of the city in the Reconstruction era.
Selected Publications
“Richmond’s Year of Disasters: Reconciliation, Relief, and the End of Reconstruction,” in Rethinking American Disasters, ed. Cynthia A. Kierner, Matthew Mulcahy, and Liz Skilton (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2023)
Education
PhD, History, George Mason University
MA, History, George Mason University
MLIS, University of Pittsburgh
BA, History, Virginia Commonwealth University
BA, Political Science, Virginia Commonwealth University