Dr. Amanda T. Boston is an award-winning professor and community-engaged researcher from Brooklyn, New York. Her research, writing, and teaching focus on twentieth-century and contemporary African American history, politics, and popular culture. Her current projects explore gentrification’s racial operations and the making and unmaking of Brooklyn’s Black communities. She is an assistant professor in the department of Africana studies at the University of Pittsburgh. Prior to that, she was a Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellow at New York University.

Boston has received research funding and support from the Ford Foundation, the Institute for Citizens & Scholars (formerly the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation), and the Wallace Foundation, among other sources. She holds a Ph.D. and an M.A. in Africana Studies from Brown University, as well as an M.A. in Political Science and a B.A. in Political Science and African & African American Studies from Duke University. 

Boston is a proud trustee emerita of the Prep for Prep program and past president of the organization’s alumni council. She is also a member of the board of directors of the Municipal Art Society of New York and a trustee emerita of Brown University. In addition to scholarship and teaching, Boston is passionate about social justice, travel, music, Duke basketball, and Black sitcoms from the 1990s.