Erica Armstrong Dunbar

Erica Armstrong Dunbar is an American historian. She 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] In November 2018 Dunbar was named joint winner of the Frederick Douglass Prize for Never Caught.[7]

Erica Armstrong Dunbar
Author at the 2018 U.S. National Book Festival
NationalityAmerican
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Pennsylvania,
Columbia University
Academic work
DisciplineHistory
InstitutionsUniversity of Delaware,
Rutgers University

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[8] before joining Rutgers in 2017.[9]

Her first book was A Fragile Freedom: African American Women and Emancipation in the Antebellum City, published by Yale University Press in 2008.[10][11]

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
  1. 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.
  2. Schuessler, Jennifer (6 February 2017). "In Search of the Slave Who Defied George Washington". The New York Times. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
  3. Baker, Peter C. (January 19, 2017). "A Review of Erica Armstrong Dunbar's Never Caught". Pacific Standard. Retrieved 2017-10-05.
  4. 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.
  5. "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.
  6. "2017 National Book Award finalists revealed". CBS News. October 4, 2017. Retrieved 2017-10-04.
  7. "Rutgers, Harvard professors share 20th annual Frederick Douglass Book Prize". YaleNews. 2018-11-19. Retrieved 2018-11-20.
  8. Damsker, Mat (February 20, 2017). "A slave's flight from our first president". USA TODAY. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
  9. Walcott-Shepherd, Candace. "Dunbar, Erica Armstrong". history.rutgers.edu. Retrieved 2017-10-05.
  10. 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.
  11. 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:10.1353/jer.2011.0018. JSTOR 41261616.
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