Melungeon Voices S5 E4 – Melungeon & Maroon Communities and the Underground Railroad

Heather Andolina welcomes Dr. Kimberly Cheek to examine the Tribal connections to the Underground Railroad in North Carolina and Virginia, how maroon and Melungeon communities helped and supported African Americans with Freedom-Seeking, and delve a little into Dr. Kimberly Cheek’s own mixed ethnic ancestry.

Dr. Kimberly M Cheek is an Adjunct Lecturer at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, and has over twelve years of experience teaching undergraduate students. She also has grant writing experience and has served on three grant committees.

Dr. Cheek's historical areas of focus include Race and Empire, Transnational black politics and radicalism, as well as U.S. Foreign policy during the Cold War. Her teaching areas are Global History, Ancient History, United States History, African American History, and Modern European History.

Dr. Cheek's research interests are 19th century African American intellectuals, late 19th and early 20th century European imperialist activity in West Africa and Central Africa, African and African American anti-colonial and liberation movements, African American global civil rights activism during World War II and the period of European colonialism in Asia and Africa, the early period of the Cold War, as well as the African American Press during World War II and the Cold War.

For more information on Dr. Kimberly M Cheek visit www.ncat.edu