Speakers
- Amanda Boston
- New York University
Amanda Boston is a Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellow and an Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow at the Marron Institute of Urban Management. She holds a Ph.D. and an M.A. in Africana Studies from Brown University, as well as an M.A. in Political Science and a B.A. in Political Science and African & African American Studies from Duke University.Her research, writing, and teaching focus on twentieth-century African American history, politics, and culture, with an emphasis on the politics and culture of race in the post-civil rights era. Amanda has received a Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, as well as research and writing support from the Social Science Research Council, the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, and the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship program, among other sources.