Dr. Erica Armstrong Dunbar joins Emory Department of African American Studies Fall 2024

Emory’s Department of African American Studies is excited to welcome Dr. Erica Armstrong Dunbar in the upcoming Fall 2024 semester. A historian, writer, and lecturer Dr. Dunbar’s interest shines through in her study with a focus on slavery, racial injustice, and gender inequality pushing her writings and lectures exploring the lives of women of African descent especially during the 19^th century. She works as a co-executive producer on HBO/Max’s series The Gilded Age, ensuring that the show was authentic in the portrayals of Black Americans and people of color. She will continue her work on the series as she joins Emory’s African American Studies department. Before joining Emory, Dr. Dunbar served as the Charles & Mary Beard Professor of History at Rutgers University with many other esteemed positions during and preceding her tenure (National Director of Association of Black Women Historians, Inaugural Director of the Program in African American History at the Library Company of Philadelphia).  We look forward to the insight, knowledge, and perspectives that she will bring both to The Department of African American Studies and to Emory as an institution.