Dr Kerry Pimblott

Biography

Dr. Kerry Pimblott is a Lecturer in International History with specializations in U.S. History and African Diaspora Studies. She joined the University of Manchester in spring 2017 after spending four years as an Assistant Professor of African American & Diaspora Studies and History at the University of Wyoming. Pimblott holds a Ph.D. in History from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a B.A. in American Studies from King's College in London. Her recent publications include Faith in Black Power: Religion, Race, and Resistance in Cairo, Illinois (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2017) and chapters in The Pew and the Picket Line: Christianity and the American Working Class (Urbana: University of Illinois, 2016) and The Oxford Handbook on Religion and Race in American History (OUP, 2018). Pimblott is also the co-founder of the Race, Roots & Resistance Collective.