Neal Hurst

2021-2024

Neal Hurst finished a seven-year apprenticeship earning his journeyman’s papers as a tailor for the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation in the Department of Historic Trades. He attended the College of William and Mary, where he received his BA in History. In 2015 he earned his master’s degree from the Winterthur Program in American Material Culture, focusing on the study of menswear in the early American South. He worked as the assistant curator at the Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania before returning to Colonial Williamsburg as the associate curator of costume and textiles. Currently Neal is preparing to open the first exhibition in Colonial Williamsburg’s newly completed costume gallery entitled Elegance, Taste, and Style: The Mary D. Doering Fashion Collection.