Angela P. Hudson

Angela Pulley Hudson joined the faculty in 2007 after receiving her PhD in American Studies from Yale University. She specializes in American Indian history, the 19th-century U.S. South, the representation of American Indians in popular culture, and the intersection of American Indian and African American lives. She has held fellowships from the Newberry Library, the American Philosophical Society, and the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, among others. She is the author of Real Native Genius: How an Ex-slave and a White Mormon Became Famous Indians (UNC Press, 2015) and Creek Paths and Federal Roads: Indians, Settlers, and Slaves and the Making of the American South (UNC Press, 2010), as well as numerous articles and book chapters. Her current research considers the role of western Native Americans in the Jim Crow South. She serves as Head of the Department of History.

Areas of Speciality

• American Indian
• U.S. South

Real Native Genius: How an Ex-Slave and a White Mormon Became Famous Indians