“There are years that ask questions and years that answer." ~Zora Neale Hurston
My Expertise
Dr. Tera W. Hunter is Professor of History and African-American Studies at Princeton University. She is a scholar of labor, gender, race, and Southern history.
She is a native of Miami, Florida, where she attended public schools. She received a B.A. degree from Duke University and a Ph.D. from Yale University.
Scholarship
St. Louis School Desegregation
Diversity in Education
History of African American Education
Equity Pedagogy
Author
Upcoming Book
Co-authoring a book with Robin D. G. Kelley and Earl Lewis: The Making of a People: A History of African-Americans (under contract, W. W. Norton Press).
Current Research Project
“The African American Marriage Gap in the Twentieth Century.”
More Dr. Rias
Consultant for museum exhibitions and documentary films.
Designed to help secondary school teachers and students learn new ways of thinking about American history.