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deJong Dr. de Jong completed her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in New Zealand and came to the United States in 1993 to complete a Ph.D. degree at the Pennsylvania State University. She held a fellowship at the Carter G. Woodson Institute for Afro-American and African Studies at the University of Virginia and teaching positions at George Mason University and the University of Wisconsin–Parkside before joining the UNR faculty in 2002. Dr. de Jong teaches courses on African American history, race and ethnicity, and American social movements in the Department of History and CH 203 in the Core Humanities program. Her research focuses on the connections between race and class and the ways that African Americans have fought for economic as well as political rights from the end of Reconstruction through the twenty-first century.

Greta de Jong
Dr. de Jong completed her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in New Zealand and came to the United States in 1993 to complete a Ph.D. degree at the Pennsylvania State University. She held a fellowship at the Carter G. Woodson Institute for Afro-American and African Studies at the University of Virginia and teaching positions at George Mason University and the University of Wisconsin–Parkside before joining the UNR faculty in 2002. Dr. de Jong teaches courses on African American history, race and ethnicity, and American social movements in the Department of History and CH 203 in the Core Humanities program. Her research focuses on the connections between race and class and the ways that African Americans have fought for economic as well as political rights from the end of Reconstruction through the twenty-first century.
	Core Humanities Faculty

Greta de Jong