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Marcia Wright

Marcia Wright is an American historian and professor emerita of history at Columbia University in New York City. She taught history at Columbia from 1966 to 2008. Wright was the first woman to be hired by Columbia as an assistant professor of history. Her work centers on the social, ecological, and public health history of Africa.

Wright graduated with her bachelor's degree, from Wellesley College in 1957, before moving on to Yale University, where she received her master's degree in 1958. She obtained her Ph.D. from London University in 1966. Provided by Wikipedia