Erica Armstrong Dunbar

• Associate Professor
  
  
• E-mail: era@udel.edu
• Phone: (302) 831-8200
• Office: 232 John Munroe Hall
  
  
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Erica Armstrong Dunbar specializes in 19th century African American and Women's History. She received her B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1994 and her Ph.D. from Columbia University in 2000. Her first book is entitled: A Fragile Freedom: African American Women and Emancipation in the Antebellum City (Yale University Press, 2008). She is currently working on her next book length project that focuses on African Americans and mental illness in the 19th century.