Professor Cumberbatch

Prudence D. Cumberbatch is an Assistant Professor in the Africana Studies Department at Brooklyn College (CUNY). She received her B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College and her Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale University in 2001. She also studied Soviet history for a year at Wadham College, Oxford University. Professor Cumberbatch teaches African American History and other related courses in the American Studies Program. Her primary areas of interest include African American, social, labor, and women's history. She has received a grant from the Research Foundation of the City University of New York (2003), and a fellowship from the Whiting Foundation (2003). During the 2004-2005 academic year, she was a residential fellow at the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University, and was a recipient of a Ford  Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship. Professor Cumberbatch has presented papers at the annual conventions of the Organization of American Historians, the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, the Southern Association for Women Historians, and most recently, the American Historical Association. Her articles have appeared in The Great Migration (forthcoming 2006), African American National Biography (2004), and Encyclopedia of American Social Movements (2003).

Contact Prof. Cumberbatch at Prudence@brooklyn.cuny.edu