Jessica A. Krug

Jessica Anne Krug is a historian, author, and an activist. She is the author of the work of Colombian, Brazilian, and West African histories Fugitive Modernities: Kisama and the Politics of Freedom, about the Quiçama people at home in Angola and within diaspora, especially in Brazil. The book was a finalist for the Frederick Douglass Prize and the Harriet Tubman Prize. Krug's additional studies focus on African American history and Latin America. According to Krug, her principal focus has been in advocacies on behalf of people of color as well as in anti-gentrification activism. She has published essays in Essence and at the race-exploring website RaceBaitR.