Myra Young Armstead
Professor of History; Director, Historical Studies Program; History Faculty, Master of Arts in Teaching

Primary Academic Program: Historical Studies

Academic Program Affiliation(s): Africana Studies, American Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Social Policy (Affiliate), Studies in Race and Ethnicity

Academic Expertise: Historical Studies

Area of Specialization: United States, 19th century, social, cultural, African American and Africana Studies, urban

Biography:
B.A., Cornell University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Chicago. Specialization: U.S. social history, with emphasis on urban and African American history. Fellowships: Danforth-Compton, Josephine de Kármán, University of Chicago Trustees, and New York State African-American Research Institute. Frederick Douglass Award, Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History (Sullivan County, New York, chapter). Author of Seeds of Freedom: James F. Brown—Fugitive Slave and Master Gardener in the Hudson Valley New York University Press; forthcoming); “Lord, Please Don’t Take Me in August”: African Americans in Newport and Saratoga Springs (1999); Mighty Change, Tall Within: Black Identity in the Hudson Valley (2003). Speaker in the Humanities, New York Council for the Humanities (2003– ). Member, New York Academy of History (2006– ). Faculty, The Master of Arts in Teaching Program at Bard College (2004– ). (1985– ) Professor of History.