Kay Wright Lewis

Dr. Kay Wright Lewis is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at Howard University. She received her PhD from the department of history at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. Her research focuses on slavery and violence, abolition, and African American intellectual history. Lewis has received many awards, including the prestigious Andrew W. Mellon Competitive Dissertation Fellowship at Rutgers University, the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition Fellowship at Yale University, and the Lapidus Center for the Historical Analysis of Transatlantic Slavery at the Schomburg Center for Research Fellowship.