Dr. Uraina N. Pack professorlady

 

 

Dr. Pack has over 10 years of university teaching, mentoring, research, conference planning, program development, and public speaking experience.  Her research explores the African Diasporic experience in relation to American History from an interdisciplinary perspective in order to demonstrate the entrenched sociopolitical, cultural, and conomic challenges and legislative issues and policies that affect our contemporary society.

 

Dr. Pack in a woodcarving village

Participating in a Study Abroad Program

About Uraina

 

Dr. Uraina N. Pack is a native of Brooklyn, New York.  In 1997 she received her Master’s of Arts in English from Clark Atlanta University, an historical black college/university in Atlanta, GA.  She received her Ph.D. in English from the University of Kentucky in 2004.  Her dissertation: “'I knew what I did and I did it with deliberate calculation': Anxiety and Tricksterism in African American Autobiography" explores the connection between folklore and the autobiographies of slaves and their descendants.  Her upcoming publication, A Life of Liberty: John Greenleaf Whittier and American Democracy, will be completed in August 2017.

Contact Dr. Pack at: professorlady218@gmail.com