Tera Hunter
Tera Hunter is an American scholar of African-American history and gender. She holds the Edwards Professor of American History Endowed Chair at Princeton University.Early life
Hunter was born in Miami, Florida. She graduated with Distinction in History from Duke University, then earned an M.Phil. and Ph.D. in history from Yale University.Career
Hunter taught at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, then Carnegie Mellon University before joining the faculty of Princeton in 2007.
Hunter's first book, To 'Joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women’s Lives and Labors After the Civil War, won the H. L. Mitchell Award from the Southern Historical Association, the Letitia Brown Memorial Book Prize from the Association of Black Women’s Historians and the Book of the Year Award in 1997 from the International Labor History Association. In 2018, she was named the Edwards Professor of American History.
