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Faculty Fellow, Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies
Assistant Professor

• Affiliation(s)

  • Faculty: Department of History
  • Faculty: Department of American Culture (AC)

• Fields of Study

  • North American religion, African American religious and intellectual history in the 20th century

• About

  Brandi Hughes is an assistant professor of American culture and history. She earned her Ph.D. at Yale University. Her research focuses on the significance of Christianity in the cultural and political developments of African diaspora and the intersections of religion, race, and gender in 19th- and early 20th-century United States migration histories. She is currently completing a manuscript, At the Cross: Redeeming Emancipation in the Mission Fields of African America.

• Education

  • Ph.D., Yale University, 2009