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Professor Dungy specializes in the history of the Caribbean and Latin America

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Kathryn R. Dungy

Assistant Professor of History
M.A., Ph.D., Duke University
B.A., Spelman College

Kathryn Dungy is a historian of the Caribbean and Latin America during the nineteenth century.  More specifically, her research reflects on the lives of peoples of color and issues of race in Puerto Rico.  This expertise is represented in the classes she teaches, which explore Latin American culture from a variety of historical angles, including race, gender, economic conditions, and issues of historiography.

Recent Courses

Modern Caribbean History:  Cannons to Cricket
From Bolivar to Chávez and Uribe:  The Search For Simón Bolivar’s Gran Colombia

Selected Publications

Dungy, R. (2005). Live and Let Live: Native and immigrant free people of color in early nineteenth-century Puerto Rico. Caribbean Studies, 33(1), 79-112.

Contact Information

New College of Florida
Division of Social Sciences
5800 Bay Shore Road
Sarasota, FL 34243-2197

kdungy@ncf.edu
(941) 487-4699

Office Hours

Social Sciences Building 205

Tuesday 10:30 to 12:30 pm
and by appointment
 
 

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