She teaches courses on slavery and emancipation, urban history, American Women’s history and African American literary history. She also teaches in and works closely with the Africana Studies program at Williams. Her first book, Doctoring Freedom: The Politics of African American Medical Care in Slavery and Emancipation, tells the story of African Americans who fought for access to both medical care and medical education and explores the relationship between medical culture and political identity and possibility. More recently, her research has turned to the history of African American childhood and literary culture. email: glong@williams.edu