Tera W. Hunter
Tera W. Hunter, a native of Miami, is professor of history and African-American studies at Princeton University. Her first book, To ‘Joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women’s Lives and Labors After the Civil War, received several prizes, including the H. L. Mitchell Award from the Southern Historical Association. She’s the co-editor of Dialogues of Dispersal: Gender, Sexuality and African Diasporas and African American Urban Studies: Perspectives from the Colonial Period to the Present. She graduated from Miami Edison Sr. High, Duke University (B. A.), and Yale University (Ph.D.).