Skip to content
Stories

Professor of History and Africana Studies, Dr. Kabria Baumgartner, has been awarded the 2021 Outstanding Book Award.

People in this story

BRYAN EATON/Staff Photo. Kabria Baumgartner, a history professor at UNH, who lives in Newburyport, has been hired by the National Park Service in Salem to make an inventory of documents, artifacts, relating African-American history and culture in Salem.

Professor Kabria Baumgartner (Dean’s Associate Professor of History and Africana Studies & WGSS Affiliated Faculty Member), was awarded the 2021 Outstanding Book Award for her book, In Pursuit of Knowledge: Black Women and Educational Activism in Antebellum America. Professor Baumgartner’s book uncovers the role that African American women and girls played in the struggle for equal school rights and desegregation that went overlooked in the nineteenth-century Northeast. Congratulations Dr. Baumgartner for your outstanding work!

For more information about her book and where to purchase it, click here.

More Stories

A ‘forgotten pioneer’: Northeastern graduate Zandra Flemister, the first Black woman to serve in the US Secret Service

03.02.2023

Award-winning Digital Transgender Archive makes often hidden yet sprawling trans history accessible

03.02.2023

Angela Davis Addresses Large Crowd at Mills College at Northeastern

03.09.23
All Stories