Dunbar’s research and scholarship has, in her own words, focused primarily on “the lives of women of African descent who called America their home during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.” With special interests in urban history, Philadelphia history, and emancipation studies, Dunbar is the current Charles and Mary Beard Professor of History at Rutgers University in New Jersey, a post she has held since 2017. After earning a BA from UPenn in history and Afro-American Studies, she went on to receive her MA and PhD from Columbia University. She was drawn to true stories, and when she enrolled in the University of Pennsylvania, decided to turn her childhood passion into a course of study. Born and raised in Pennsylvania, Erica Armstrong Dunbar spent the early years of her education at a Philadelphia Quaker school reading deeply for hours on end.
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