Betsy Golden Kellem ’01 is a scholar of the unusual. She is the author of Jumping Through Hoops: Performing Gender in the Nineteenth Century Circus, and her entertainment history work has appeared in venues including The Atlantic, Vanity Fair, The Washington Post, The Public Domain Review, Smithsonian, Atlas Obscura, and Slate. Kellem is an Emmy and Telly award winner for her Showman’s Shorts video series on P. T. Barnum and writes on culture history for JSTOR Daily and history.com. If you ask nicely, she will juggle knives for you.
