OSUN Faculty

Myra Armstead

Myra has a BA in Government from Cornell University, MA in International Relations (specializing in African Affairs) from the University of Chicago, and PhD in History from the University of Chicago. She is a tenured professor with an endowed chair at Bard College. She has taught social and cultural history at Bard for 38 years, with courses in the history of the American urban experience, race, labor, ethnicity, immigration and mobility, women, African-American, the American Civil War and Reconstruction, the Progressive Era, the American Civil Rights Movement, and public history.