Dr. María Esther Hammack is a Mexican scholar and public historian whose work bridges the histories of liberation and abolition that shaped the US, Mexico, and Canada. Her first book, Channels of Liberation: Freedom Fighters in the Age of Abolition reexamines the Underground Railroad to reconsider & broaden the actors, timelines, and geographies of Black Liberation in North America through the experiences of Black Americans, principally women, who left the United States to claim freedom in Mexican spaces. 

Dr. Hammack is currently Co-PI of a Humanities in Place grant from the Mellon Foundation in collaboration with the Webber Family Preservation Project in Texas and serves various national and international orgranizations in various positions. This year, 2024-2025, she received the Rodica C. Botoman Award for Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching and Mentoring from the College of Arts and Sciences here at The Ohio State University.

COURSES

_{AUTUMN 2026}

_{HIST 2025: American Revolution (s)}

_{SPRING 2026}

_{HIST 2025: American Revolution (s)}

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_{HIST 7900: Colloquium in Historiography and Critical Theory}

_{HIST/AFM 3086: Black Women in Slavery and Freedom}

_{HIST 4085: Meanings of Freedom ( Undergraduate Seminar)}

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_{HIST/AFM 2800: Introduction to the History Discipline}

_{HIST/AFAM 3081: Free Black People in Antebellum America}

_{HIST/AFAM 2080: African American History to 1877} 

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_{HIST/AFAM 3086: Black Women in Slavery & Freedom}

ORGANIZED SYMPOSIA

Register for our Northwest Ordinance Symposium

January 30, 2026

New Perspectives on the Northwest Ordinance

PAST SYMPOSIUMS

October 1st, 2024

Forging Freedom: AfroLatin American Independence Movements