Join us for our Fall Rev250 Speaker Series at the Elmendorph Inn and on Zoom, featuring five talks on the Revolution’s impact in Dutchess County and the evolving cultural landscape of the Hudson Valley. Free to attend; registration required. Registration form will be available August 2025. Paid for in part by Dutchess County. Learn more about our Rev250 programming.
A Valley Between Worlds: Indigenous Land, Colonial Property, and Resistance to Capitalism in the Colonial Hudson Valley
More details to come.
Presenter Bio:
BJ Lillis is the Hench Post-Doctoral Fellow at the American Antiquarian Society in Worcester, MA. They completed their Ph.D in history at Princeton University in 2024. BJ’s research brings together histories of Atlantic slavery, Indigenous North America, and English, Dutch, and German colonialism to explore the contested relationship between land, labor, and property in the 18th-century Hudson Valley. Before graduate school, BJ worked in public history at the Museum of the City of New York, including as Project Assistant for New York at Its Core, the museum’s groundbreaking three-gallery permanent exhibition on the past, present, and future of New York City. They are also known for their acclaimed collaborations with the artist Lissa Rivera, Beautiful Boy and The Silence of Spaces, exploring the history and performance of gender.