Erica Armstrong Dunbar
Erica Armstrong Dunbar | |
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Author at the 2018 U.S. National Book Festival | |
Nationality | American |
Academic background | |
Alma mater |
University of Pennsylvania, Columbia University |
Academic work | |
Discipline | History |
Institutions |
University of Delaware, Rutgers University |
Erica Armstrong Dunbar is Charles and Mary Beard Professor of History at Rutgers University. She is the author of Never Caught: The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge.[1][2][3][4][5] Never Caught was a finalist for the 2017 National Book Award for nonfiction.[6]
Life
Dunbar attended college at the University of Pennsylvania, then earned an M.A. and Ph.D from Columbia University. She taught at the University of Delaware[7] before joining Rutgers in 2017.[8]
Her first book was A Fragile Freedom: African American Women and Emancipation in the Antebellum City, published by Yale University Press in 2008.[9][10]
Works
- A Fragile Freedom: African American Women and Emancipation in the Antebellum City (Yale University Press, 2008) ISBN 9780300177022, OCLC 816818622
- Never Caught: The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge (Atria/37 Ink, February 2017) ISBN 9781501126413, OCLC 1019993773
- The Politics of History: A New Generation of American Historians Writes Back with Jim Downs, Timothy Patrick McCarthy, and T.K. Hunter (in progress)
References
- ↑ Melamed, Samantha (February 7, 2017). "Meet the slave who escaped from George Washington's Philly mansion and was never caught". Philadelphia Inquirer. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
- ↑ Schuessler, Jennifer (6 February 2017). "In Search of the Slave Who Defied George Washington". The New York Times. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
- ↑ Baker, Peter C. (January 19, 2017). "A Review of Erica Armstrong Dunbar's Never Caught". Pacific Standard. Retrieved 2017-10-05.
- ↑ Lozada, Lucas Iberico (March 3, 2017). "Erica Armstrong Dunbar Talks Never Caught, the True Story of George Washington's Runaway Slave". Paste. Retrieved 2017-10-05.
- ↑ "NEVER CAUGHT Ona Judge, the Washingtons, and the Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave by Erica Armstrong Dunbar". Kirkus Reviews. November 23, 2016. Retrieved October 5, 2017.
- ↑ "2017 National Book Award finalists revealed". CBS News. October 4, 2017. Retrieved 2017-10-04.
- ↑ Damsker, Mat (February 20, 2017). "A slave's flight from our first president". USA TODAY. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
- ↑ Walcott-Shepherd, Candace. "Dunbar, Erica Armstrong". history.rutgers.edu. Retrieved 2017-10-05.
- ↑ Rael, Patrick (2008-12-01). ":A Fragile Freedom: African American Women and Emancipation in the Antebellum City". The American Historical Review. 113 (5): 1535–1536. doi:10.1086/ahr.113.5.1535. ISSN 0002-8762.
- ↑ Reynolds, Rita (2011). "Review of A Fragile Freedom: African American Women and Emancipation in the Antebellum City". Journal of the Early Republic. 31 (2): 322–324. doi:10.2307/41261616. JSTOR 41261616.
External links
- Interview with Dunbar in Richmond Magazine, April 21, 2017
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