Adventures in Theater History: Philadelphia

Christian DuComb is associate professor of Theater at Colgate University, where he teaches theater history, dramatic literature, and performance studies.  He has previously taught at Haverford College and Brown University, where he received his Ph.D. in Theater and Performance Studies in 2012.  His first book, Haunted City: Three Centuries of Racial Impersonation in Philadelphia (Michigan, 2017), traces the deep roots of Philadelphia’s annual Mummers Parade through the city’s history of blackface minstrelsy and other forms of racial impersonation.