Dr. Gregg D. Kimball

Senior Historian in Residence

Historian and curator with deep expertise in Richmond, the American South, public memory, labor, music, and Black history.

Dr. Gregg D. Kimball is Senior Historian in Residence at the Shockoe Institute. His career includes more than three decades of leadership in public history, archives, museums, exhibitions, and community engagement. He previously served as Director of Public Services and Outreach at the Library of Virginia, and before that held historian, curator, and publications roles at the Valentine Museum and Library of Virginia.

Kimball has curated and contributed to major exhibitions on Richmond history, African American life, labor, memory, and culture, including To Be Sold: Richmond and the American Slave Trade, In Bondage and Freedom: Antebellum Black Life in Richmond, Virginia, and The Working People of Richmond. His published work includes scholarship on antebellum Richmond, Black memory, the African American diaspora, and the cultural history of the American South.