Summary
Gillet Rosenblith is an Assistant Professor at the University of Virginia whose scholarship examines how race, poverty, space, and gender shaped twentieth-century U.S. housing and policy, with a dissertation tracing how criminalization and empowerment reshaped public housing policy from 1969–2000. Sixty percent of their role centers on teaching and administrating the College Fellows program for first-year students, while the remainder focuses on public history projects for the Provost’s office, translating archival research into accessible institutional narratives. A former postdoctoral fellow with the Memory Project of the Democracy Initiative, they combine rigorous archival methods with public-facing writing—publishing in venues like the Washington Post—to bridge academic research and civic understanding. Their background in policy advocacy and wrongful-conviction work informs a research lens attentive to law, governance, and everyday experience, making their teaching and public scholarship both historically grounded and policy-relevant.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), United States History, African and African American Studies, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), United States History, African and African American Studies at Duke University
University of Virginia