Erin D. Chapman, PhD is Associate Professor of History and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at George Washington University in Washington, DC. She is a scholar of race and sexuality in U.S. culture and an historian of gender politics and radicalism in the 20th century Black freedom movement.
Currently, Erin is drafting a biography of playwright Lorraine Hansberry. She serves as President of the Board of Trustees of the Journal of Women’s History. At George Washington University, she teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in African American history, the history of slavery and its legacies, and Black radicalism.