Kim Butler
Kim D. Butler (born 1960) is an American author and historian.
Butler was awarded a PhD from Johns Hopkins University in 1996.[1]
Her first book, Freedoms Given, Freedoms Won: Afro-Brazilians in Post-Abolition São Paulo and Salvador, was published in 1998 by Rutgers University Press.[2] It won the American Historical Association's Wesley Logan Prize[3] and the Association of Black Women Historians' Letitia Woods Brown Prize.[4] Currently, Butler is an associate professor of history in the Africana Studies department at Rutgers University.[5] She was the third President of the Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora (ASWAD) 2011–2015. She was named a Fulbright Scholar in 2014.[6]
References
[edit]- ↑ Directory of History Departments, Historical Organizations, and Historians (American Historical Association, 2005), p. 405.
- ↑ "Freedoms Given, Freedoms Won: Afro-Brazilians in Post-Abolition São Paolo and Salvador", Rutgers University Press.
- ↑ "Wesley-Logan Prize in African Diaspora History". Historians.org. Retrieved April 19, 2026.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ "Woods Brown Memorial Book, Anthology, and Article Awards". Association of Black Women Historians. Retrieved April 19, 2026.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ "Africana Studies | Faculty | Kim D. Butler". School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers–New Brunswick.
- ↑ "Kim D. Butler". www.aswadiaspora.org. Retrieved May 27, 2025.
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