Kabria Baumgartner

Department/Affiliation: History
Phone: 330-287-1947
Office Address: 113 Kauke
Email: kbaumgartner@wooster.edu
Web Site: Kabria Baumgartner

Degrees

• B.A., University of California, Los Angeles 2003
• M.A., Unveristy of California, Los Angeles 2005
• Ph.D, University of Massachusetts Amherst 2011

Courses Taught

• HIST 110: U.S. Experience to 1877
• HIST 201: History of Schools in America
• HIST 301: African American Women’s History
  

Honors, Awards and Grants

• Spencer Foundation Dissertation Fellowship (2010-11) 
• Frederick B. Artz Research Grant, Oberlin College (2010) 
• Phillips G. Davis Award, National Association for Ethnic Studies (2009) 
• Graduate Opportunity Fellowship, UCLA (2003-04) 
• Gates Millennium Scholarship, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (2000-03) 

Professional Memberships

• American Historical Association
• Association for the Study of African American Life and History
• History of Education Society
• Organization of American Historians

Publications

• "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Education, and Abolition."  Ethnic Studies Review 32.2 (Winter 2009): 52-78.
• Review of Hilary J. Moss, Schooling Citizens: The Struggle for African American Education in Antebellum America in History Journal of Massachusetts 38 (Fall 2010): 155-158.

Research Interests

Professor Baumgartner writes about and teaches courses on early American history, women's history, and the history of education.  She is currently writing a book on African American women's education in antebellum America.