Allie Mercer graduated from the College of William & Mary with a B.A. in History and a Certificate in Public History and Material Culture from the National Institute of American History and Democracy (NIAHD). Her prior research spans topics including the evolving public memory of military iconography and the appropriation of cultural property in the aftermath of the Second World War.
Most recently, she served as the inaugural Gamage Democracy Fellow at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, assisting the Office of the President during the nation's semiquincentennial and developing an internationally facing curriculum centered on civic engagement and democracy.
Her research interests lie at the intersection of cultural heritage and international law, with a focus on illicit trafficking and heritage destruction in armed conflict. Within the MA/MSc in International and World History at Columbia and LSE, she intends to explore the legal frameworks that govern the protection of cultural heritage, with particular interest in the evolution of international conventions governing cultural property from their postwar origins to the present.
