Kendra Taira Field

Dr. Kendra Taira Field is an award-winning historian of African American and Afro-Native experience in the United States and scholar of family history and genealogy. A citizen of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, Field is the author of Growing Up with the Country (Yale, 2018) and the forthcoming Stories We Tell (W.W. Norton), a history of African-American genealogy from the Middle Passage to the present. Field is the Gerald R. Gill Associate Professor of History and Director of the Center for Public History at Tufts University. She directs the Du Bois Forum and serves as Chief Historian of 10 Million Names.