Field has advised and appeared in historical documentaries including Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s 'The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross' (2013) and 'Roots: A History Revealed' (2016).Ĭo-Director, African American Trail Project She is the recipient of the Western Writers of America's, 2017 Spur Award for Best Western Short Nonfiction, the 2016 Boahen-Wilks Prize, and the OAH's Huggins-Quarles Award. Field's recent articles have appeared in the Journal of American History, the Western Historical Quarterly, and Transition. Mellon Foundation, the Huntington Library, and Harvard University's Charles Warren Center in American History. Du Bois: A Biography (Henry Holt, 2009).įield has been awarded fellowships from the Ford Foundation, the Andrew W.

Field also served as Assistant Editor to David Levering Lewis' W.E.B. The book traces her ancestors' migratory lives between the Civil War and the Great Migration. Field is the author of Growing Up with the Country: Family, Race, and Nation after the Civil War (Yale University Press, January 2018). Previously, Field served as Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, Riverside, and worked in education and the non-profit sector in Boston and New York.ĭr. She also holds a Master's in Public Policy from Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government and a BA from Williams College. Field received her PhD in American History from New York University. Professor Field's research and teaching areas include race, slavery, freedom, migration, and social movements in the long nineteenth century African-American family history, memory, and public history.ĭr.

Kendra Field is associate professor of history and of studies in race, colonialism, and diaspora and director of the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy at Tufts University. Director of the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy

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