Kathryn Dungy

Kathryn Dungy, Ph.D., is the Department Chair and The Raphael Cassimere, Jr., Endowed Professor in African American History at the University of New Orleans. She holds a doctorate from Duke University and has taught at institutions including Saint Michael’s College, the University of Vermont, and the New College of Florida.

• Education: Spelman College (B.A., magna cum laude), Duke University (M.A., Ph.D.)

Her research focuses on race, class, and gender in the Atlantic World, with particular attention to free people of color in colonial Puerto Rico and African American family narratives spanning 1680-1964. She has received research grants enabling fieldwork across the Americas and Europe.

Current projects include a digital textbook on early colonial Latin America and a book redefining African American history through four family lineages. She also serves on the Council on International Educational Exchange (CIEE) Board of Directors and has lived/worked in Nigeria, Puerto Rico, Spain, and over 60 countries.