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Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham is the Victor S. Thomas Professor of History and African American Studies at Harvard University, where she has been a tenured faculty member since 1993. She chaired the Department of African and African American Studies from 2006 to 2013 and founded the department’s Social Engagement Initiative. Higginbotham has a rich teaching background, starting as a public school teacher before moving into academia, where she has taught at Dartmouth College, the University of Maryland, and the University of Pennsylvania, among others. In 2010-2011, she served as the inaugural John Hope Franklin Professor of American Legal History at Duke University. Her research focuses on African American women’s history, and she is a co-editor of the African American National Biography and author of the award-winning book
Administered by the Harvard Kenneth C. Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS).