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5+ years
Jennifer
A Dartmouth history major now pursuing a JD at Duke and a PhD in Education at Boston College, Jennifer brings serious academic range to African-American history — particularly the legal and policy dimensions that shaped Black life in America, from the Thirteenth Amendment's loopholes to the legislat...
Boston College
Masters in Education, Curriculum and Instruction
Dartmouth College
B.A. in History
Duke University
Juris Doctor, Prelaw Studies

Certified Tutor
Sarah
Sarah's doctoral research at Harvard sits at the intersection of African and African-American cultural production — tracing how musical traditions, oral histories, and literary voices moved across the Atlantic and evolved in new contexts. That background gives her an unusually textured understanding...
Harvard University
PHD, Ethnomusicology
Oberlin College
Bachelors, English and Jazz studies

Certified Tutor
10+ years
Stephanie
Currently pursuing a Master's in History at Penn after completing dual degrees in English and History at Cornell, Stephanie brings a researcher's eye to the texts and documents that define this subject — abolitionist pamphlets, Freedmen's Bureau records, the speeches and letters that reveal how Blac...
Cornell University
Bachelors in English and History
University of Pennsylvania
Current Grad Student, History

Certified Tutor
Peter
Studying African-American history means grappling with primary sources that range from slave narratives to Supreme Court decisions to protest literature. Peter's dual background in journalism and English Education gives him a sharp eye for textual analysis, and he teaches students to read these docu...
Ohio State
Masters in Education, English Education
Syracuse University
Bachelor of Science, Journalism

Certified Tutor
Few tutors bring the depth Eric does to African-American History. His Master's in African Area Studies and his experience as a college humanities instructor give him a framework that connects the transatlantic slave trade, the Harlem Renaissance, and modern racial politics into a coherent narrative ...
University of California Los Angeles
Masters, African Area Studies
University of California Los Angeles
Bachelors

Certified Tutor
9+ years
Patrick
Patrick taught fifth and sixth graders on Chicago's south side, where African-American history isn't an abstraction but a living context. His training in close reading and textual analysis at the University of Chicago means he can walk students through foundational texts — from slave narratives and ...
University of Chicago
Bachelor of Arts in English Literature and Linguistics

Certified Tutor
Lisanne earned her PhD from Harvard in Black Studies and Social Anthropology, making African-American history not just a tutoring subject but the center of her academic career. She digs into the primary documents, cultural movements, and political structures that shaped the Black experience in Ameri...
Harvard University
PhD
Brown University
Bachelor in Arts, Development Studies
Brown University
BA in International Studies

Certified Tutor
9+ years
Julia
Julia's history degree and her deep engagement with AP US History, AP World History, and American literature give her a cross-disciplinary lens for teaching how events like the Great Migration or the Harlem Renaissance reshaped both policy and culture simultaneously. She connects African-American hi...
Bryn Mawr College
Bachelor in Arts, History

Certified Tutor
4+ years
Asha
Asha's PhD in Political Science and Government grounds her teaching of African-American History in the legislative battles, constitutional amendments, and policy debates that shaped Black life in America — from Reconstruction-era civil rights acts to the Voting Rights Act of 1965. She unpacks how po...
Columbia University in the City of New York
Master of Science, Actuarial Science
Spelman College
Bachelor in Arts, Political Science and Government
Rice University
Doctor of Philosophy, Political Science and Government

Certified Tutor
10+ years
Arianna
Arianna's Dartmouth education and science-heavy background — three bachelor's degrees including neuroscience — trained her to dissect complex systems, a skill she brings to tracing how medical exploitation, educational segregation, and economic policy compounded across generations in Black American ...
Dartmouth College
Bachelor of Science
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