Erica Armstrong Dunbar

Erica Armstrong Dunbar joined the Department of History at Rutgers University–New Brunswick in 2017. She holds a Ph.D. from Columbia University and specializes in African American, United States, and women’s and gender history, with specialization in late 18th-century and early 19th-century history. She is the national director of the Association of Black Women Historians.

Publications:

• Never Caught: The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge. (Atria/37 Ink, February 2017)
• A Fragile Freedom: African American Women and Emancipation in the Antebellum City. (Yale University Press, 2008)
• “Ringing the Freedom Bell” The Nation (November 2016)

Media Appearances/Speaking Engagements:

• UMass Amherst

• New York Historical Society

• Politics & Prose—Union Market

Accomplishments:

• Charles & Mary Beard Distinguished Professor of History - Rutgers University

• National Director of the Association of Black Women Historians (2019-Present) 

• Inaugural Director of the Program in African American History at the Library Company of Philadelphia (2011-2018) 

Upcoming Projects:

• The Politics of History: A New Generation of American Historians Writes Back. Co-authored with, Jim Downs, Timothy Patrick McCarthy, and T.K. Hunter. (In progress)

The Scarlet and Black Research Center convenes researchers and practitioners across the humanities to examine the global dimensions of anti-Black racism.

https://scarletandblack.rutgers.edu/