Author
Edna Chun ; Alvin Evans
Year
2024
Publisher
Purdue University Press
Language
English
Pages
25
ISBN
978-1-61249-839-3
Last Update
19-Sep-2024
Keywords
Education ; Sociology
The tragic story of Thea Hunter, a Black female academic who completed her doctorate in history at Columbia University, illustrates the struggles of adjunct faculty to survive in a tightening economy without sufficient financial resources or health insurance. According to her doctoral adviser, celebrated historian Eric Foner, Hunter’s dissertation that focused on the case of James Somerset, a Black man who escaped slavery and won his freedom at trial in England, was a pioneering analysis in the study of transatlantic law and slavery.¹
Following completion of her dissertation, Dr. Hunter assumed a tenure-line teaching position at Western Connecticut College but...
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