Dr. Amanda B. Moniz is the David M. Rubenstein M. Curator of Philanthropy at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. Moniz’s first book, From Empire to Humanity: The American Revolution and the Origins of Humanitarianism (2016), was awarded the Association of Voluntary Action Scholars (ARNOVA) inaugural Peter Dobkin Hall History of Philanthropy Book Prize. She is now working on a biography of Isabella Graham, a transformational philanthropist in the early United States, as well as on a book tentatively entitled Philanthropy’s Usable Past: Ten Stories about Changing the World Today. A focal interest of hers is how wars have shaped American philanthropy, and a major current project of hers is the new War and Latina/o Philanthropy Collecting Initiative. Moniz is a visiting faculty member at the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy.