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American historian (born 1967)

Barbara Krauthamer (born 1967) is an American historian specializing in African-American history.

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She has been the dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Emory University since 2023. Prior to this, Krauthamer was the dean of the College of Humanities and Fine Arts at the University of Massachusetts Amherst from 2020 until 2023.

Biography

Barbara Krauthamer was born in 1967 in New Jersey.^[1][2] Her father was a German Jew who had fled to the United States in 1938, later co-founding the Rutgers New Jersey Medical School.

Her mother was "the first African American woman to receive a doctorate in clinical psychology from Rutgers University".^[3] After growing up in Princeton, New Jersey, Krauthamer attended Dartmouth College, where she initially majored in neuroscience.

While at Dartmouth, Krauthamer organized and led rallies against apartheid in South Africa, later switching her major to gove