Staff
Zoe Schoen
Project Manager and Researcher for Slavery, Colonialism and their Legacies
Zoe graduated from Tufts with a BA in Anthropology in 2019. As a student of Dr. Kendra Field, she developed a love of family history and lore, seeing personal storytelling as a powerful entry point into historical and political inquiry. Her work on Russian Jewish migration, eating, lobotomy, and her Great Aunt Miriam is a project she hopes to revisit one day soon. Since the summer of 2020, Zoe has been working for Dr. Field and Dr. Kerri Greenidge as a researcher, and more recently as an administrator for the African American Trail Project. She is honored to learn from these brilliant women historians every day, and to ground the public history work of the Trail Project in a commitment to remember and celebrate those who have come before us.
Teresa Salvato
Program Administrator
Teresa graduated from Tufts with a B.A. in English Literature and a concentration in Italian Literature in 1985. She has been working for the Center for Cognitive Studies and the Cognitive Science PhD Program for many years and now also provides support for Professors Field and Greenidge. Teresa is an artist—a painter and a potter. She recently built a pottery studio which she uses to teach pottery, make her own pottery, and work alongside a group of experienced potters. Teresa’s daughter graduated from Tufts in 2023 with a BA in Italian Literature and Latin American Studies.