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Barbara Krauthamer is Charles Howard Candler also professor of History at Emory University, where she previously served as Dean of Emory College. Between 2017 and 2023, she served successive terms as Dean of the Graduate School and Dean of the College of Humanities and Fine Arts at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where she created two fellowship programs to support the recruitment and retention of underrepresented graduate students in the sciences, humanities, arts, and business. She is widely recognized as a leading historian of African American slavery and emancipation. 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, which received the 2013 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work in Non-fiction. She appears in the award-winning documentary Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People. Her work has been profiled in the New York Times, CBS Evening News, National Public Radio, Pacifica Radio, and CNN as well as in media outlets in the UK and Europe.  She has received numerous grants and fellowships to support her scholarship.  In 2017 the Association of Black Women Historians awarded her the Lorraine A. Williams Leadership Award in recognition of her scholarship and work to create opportunities for Black women in higher education. Recently, she was recognized for her leadership by the A.D. King Foundation for her support of social justice and by Women Choice, a global organization dedicated to women’s empowerment and gender equity.