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Company: St. Cloud State University
Position: Chair / Professor, Ethnic, Gender and Women's Studies
Ph. D. in African-American/Black Studies from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Christopher P. Lehman is the director of the African American Studies Minor at St. Cloud State University. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and he has been a visiting fellow at Harvard University’s Hutchins Institute for African and African American Research. His articles have appeared in Minnesota History and The Chronicles of Oklahoma. In January 2020 his book Slavery’s Reach: Southern Slaveholders in the North Star State became a finalist for the Minnesota Book Award in the “Minnesota Nonfiction” category.