Department of History

Erin received her Bachelors in English, Economics, and African American and Diaspora Studies from Vanderbilt University. She continued her studies at Yale University and Louisiana State University where she received a Master of Arts in Religion and Master of Arts in Liberal Arts respectively. Throughout her studies, she developed an increasing interest in African American freedom efforts. Her current research focuses on marronage in the Louisiana territory during its colonial and antebellum periods.