Dr. Lauranett Lee

Visiting Lecturer, Jepson School of Leadership Studies

Adjunct Assistant Professor, SPCS, Liberal Arts, the University of Richmond

Dr. Lee is a public historian specializing in teaching, advocating, and collaborating with diverse audiences. She is the founding curator of African American history at the Virginia Historical Society (2001-2016). In 2011, she worked at VHS to launch a genealogical tool called Unknown No Longer: A Database of Virginia Slave Names. In 2008, she published Making the American Dream Work: A Cultural History of African Americans in Hopewell, Virginia, an oral history project commissioned by the Hopewell City Council. In 2017, Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney appointed her to the Monument Avenue Commission, tasked with making recommendations on the future of the Confederate monuments.