Speakers/Chautauqua Catalog
| Name | Dr. Sherri Burr |
| sburr5100@aol.com | |
| Office Phone | 505/277-5650 |
| Address | PO Box 27223 Albuquerque, NM 87125 US |
| Biographical Info | Professor Sherri Burr’s academic credentials include a B.A. degree from Mount Holyoke College, an M.P.A. from Princeton University, and a J.D. from Yale Law School. She was the first African American female to be awarded tenure and promotion to full professor at the University of New Mexico in 1994. Professor Burr is the author or co-author of thirty-one books. In 2015, she became a Monticello fellow at the International Center for Jefferson Studies in Virginia to work on Complicated Lives: Free Blacks in Virginia, 1619-1865. Carolina Academic Press published the book, her 27th , in August 2019, and it was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in History. The book also received the 2020 New Mexico-Arizona Book Award for Best Cover Design, which included one of her own photos. *Please read the booking guidelines before applying for funds. Speaker must be contacted by host to arrange presentation date* |
