Dr. Barbara Krauthamer: Envisioning Emancipation

Barbara Krauthamer is Dean of the College of Humanities and Fine Arts at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where she is also professor of history. She is the author of multiple books, including Black Slaves, Indian Masters: Slavery, Emancipation and Citizenship in the Native American South and Envisioning Emancipation: Black Americans and the End of Slavery, co-authored with Dr. Deborah Willis. This pathbreaking book traces the history of emancipation and freedom through a study of over 150 historic photographs and has received numerous accolades, most notably the 2013 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work in non-fiction. In 2017, Barbara Krauthamer received the Lorraine A. Williams Leadership Award from the Association of Black Women Historians in recognition of both her scholarship and her work to create opportunities for Black women in higher education.