Tera Hunter

Tera Hunter is an American scholar of African-American history and gender. She holds the Edwards Professor of American History Endowed Chair at Princeton University.

Tera Hunter
Born
Miami, Florida
Alma materDuke University
Yale University
OccupationHistorian, professor
EmployerPrinceton University
Notable work
To 'Joy My Freedom
TitleProfessor of History and African-American Studies

Early life

Hunter was born in Miami, Florida. She graduated with Distinction in History from Duke University, then earned an M.Phil. and Ph.D. in history from Yale University.[1]

Career

Hunter taught at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, then Carnegie Mellon University before joining the faculty of Princeton in 2007.[1]

Hunter's first book, To 'Joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women’s Lives and Labors After the Civil War, won the H. L. Mitchell Award from the Southern Historical Association,[2] the Letitia Brown Memorial Book Prize from the Association of Black Women’s Historians and the Book of the Year Award in 1997 from the International Labor History Association.[1] In 2018, she was named the Edwards Professor of American History.[3]

Bibliography
  • To 'Joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women’s Lives and Labors After the Civil War (Harvard University Press, 1998)[4][5][6]
  • ed. The African American Urban Experience: Perspectives from the Colonial Period to the Present, with Joe Trotter and Earl Lewis (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004)
  • ed. Dialogues of Dispersal: Gender, Sexuality and African Diasporas, with Sandra Gunning and Michele Mitchell (Wiley-Blackwell, 2004)[7]
  • The Making of a People: A History of African-Americans, with Robin D. G. Kelley and Earl Lewis (W. W. Norton, forthcoming)
  • Bound in Wedlock: Slave and Free Black Marriage in the Nineteenth Century (Harvard University Press, 2017)[8][9]

References
  1. "Tera Hunter | Department of History". history.princeton.edu. Princeton University. Retrieved February 15, 2018.
  2. "H. L. Mitchell Award". thesha.org. Southern Historical Association. Retrieved February 15, 2018.
  3. "Five faculty members named to endowed professorships". princeton.edu. October 4, 2018. Retrieved September 7, 2019.
  4. Shannon, Janet Harrison (April 1, 2000). "To 'Joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women's Lives and Labors after the Civil War. Tera W. Hunter Gendered Strife and Confusion: The Political Culture of Reconstruction. Laura F. Edwards What a Woman Ought to Be and to Do: Black Professional Women Workers during the Jim Crow Era. Stephanie J. Shaw". Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. 25 (3): 908–912. doi:10.1086/495488. ISSN 0097-9740.
  5. Holsey, Bayo (January 1, 1998). "To 'Joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women's Lives and Labors After the Civil War". Transforming Anthropology. 7 (1): 76–77. doi:10.1525/tran.1998.7.1.76. ISSN 1548-7466.
  6. Faust, Drew Gilpin (July 13, 1997). "Slave Wages". The New York Times. Retrieved February 15, 2018.
  7. Epprecht, Marc (2006). "Review of Dialogues of Dispersal: Gender, Sexuality, and African Diasporas". The International Journal of African Historical Studies. 39 (1): 144–147. JSTOR 40034005.
  8. Robertson, Darryl (August 17, 2017). "V Books: Prof. Tera Hunter Explores Slave Marriages In 'Bound In Wedlock'". Vibe. Retrieved February 15, 2018.
  9. Smith, Mark M. (June 9, 2017). "Till Death or Distance Do Us Part". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved February 15, 2018.
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