Warren Milteer Jr.

Warren Milteer Jr. is an Associate Professor of History at George Washington University, specializing in U.S. History with a focus on early America, the nineteenth-century U.S., and the U.S. South. His research emphasizes free people of color, race, slavery, and Native American history. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2014).

His publications include Beyond Slavery’s Shadow: Free People of Color in the South (2021) and North Carolina’s Free People of Color, 1715-1885 (2020), alongside articles in the Journal of Social History and North Carolina Historical Review. He has received major awards such as the Charles S. Sydnor Award (2022) and the Ragan Old North State Award (2022).

Milteer teaches courses like HIST 2301: Freedom in the Age of Slavery and HIST 3360: African American History to 1865.