Philip Mead (historian)
Philip Mead, an American historian specializing in the period of the American Revolution, is curator of the Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia.
Mead, the Museum's founding curator and chief historian, helped shape the museum that he heads.
Mead earned the PhD from Harvard University in 2012. Mead's doctoral dissertation, Melancholy Landscapes: Writing Warfare in the American Revolution, was written under Jill Lepore and draws on the diaries of 169 Revolutionary Army soldiers.
Mead previously taught Revolutionary War Theory at Harvard.
