Gretchen Gerzina

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Gretchen Gerzina
Born1950 (age 7374)
Other namesGretchen Holbrook Gerzina
Occupation(s)Historian, author, academic
Notable workBlack England: Life Before Emancipation
SpouseAnthony Gerzina
Children2
Website gretchengerzina.com

Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina (born 1950) is an American author and academic who has written mostly historically-grounded biographical studies. She has written about Black British history. [1] [2] Her academic posts have included being the Kathe Tappe Vernon Professor of Biography at Dartmouth College, working as a professor at Vassar College, being a professor and a director of Africana Studies at Barnard College, and as of April 2019 being the Dean of the University of Massachusetts Amherst Commonwealth Honors College. [3] Gerzina was the host of WAMC's nationally-syndicated radio program The Book Show for fourteen years, where she interviewed authors. [4]

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In the UK, she presented a 10-part documentary for BBC Radio 4 called Britain's Black Past, [5] which she subsequently adapted into a book. [6] [7]

Personal life

She was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and moved to Springfield, Massachusetts, just before she was five years old. [4] She is married to Anthony Gerzina and they have two sons. [4]

Selected publications

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