Anne Delano Steinert
2025-27 Taft Professor of Social Justice
Dr. Anne Delano Steinert studies public history and the history of the built environment with a focus on late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century Cincinnati. She directs the Center for the City and is the founder of Cincinnati's Over-the-Rhine Museum. Dr. Steinert will advance work on several collaborative, social justice projects during her professorship, including researching the impacts of institutional truth telling on recruitment, retention, and rootedness of Black students and faculty with the Universities Studying Slavery coalition; pursuing funding and institutional support for a just and fitting campus monument for victims of the UC full-body radiation experiments with colleagues in the College of Medicine; creating physical markers for the “UC Black History Trail” created with her students alongside colleagues in DAAP; and researching and building a digital Avondale History Trail with community historians.