Kim D. Butler (born 1960) is an American author and historian. Butler was awarded a PhD from

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in 1996.''Directory of History Departments, Historical Organizations, and Historians'' (American Historical Association, 2005), p. 405. Her first book is ''Freedoms Given, Freedoms Won: Afro-Brazilians in Post-Abolition São Paulo and Salvador.'' This publication won the

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and the

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' Letitia Woods Brown Prize. Currently, Butler is an associate professor of history in the Africana Studies department at

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. She was the third President of the Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora (ASWAD) 2011-2015. She was named a

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in 2014.

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