Jessica Krug's publications include Fugitive Modernities: Kisama and the Politics of Freedom, which was a finalist for the Frederick Douglass Prize and the Harriet Tubman Prize.
19 Facts About Jessica Krug
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In September 2020, Krug revealed that she had misrepresented her race and ethnicity during her career, and resigned from her position at GWU.
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Jessica Krug attended Hyman Brand Hebrew Academy and The Barstow School in Kansas City, a co-ed private college prep school in south Kansas City.
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Jessica Krug later attended the University of Kansas without claiming to be a person of color before transferring to Portland State University, where she earned a bachelor's degree in 2005.
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Jessica Krug has stated that she lives with unaddressed mental health issues, and that she began to present herself as a light-skinned person of color as a juvenile to escape from trauma and emotional difficulties.
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Jessica Krug taught university classes in the Washington DC area, and lived in East Harlem in New York City.
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Jessica Krug began teaching history at George Washington University in 2012.
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Jessica Krug has authored articles and a book relating to African American history and Latin America.
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Jessica Krug has published essays in Essence and at the race-exploring website RaceBaitR.
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Jessica Krug received financial support from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture that led to the publication of her book Fugitive Modernities.
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Jessica Krug is the author of Fugitive Modernities: Kisama and the Politics of Freedom, a book about the Quicama people in Angola and within diaspora, especially in Brazil.
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In Fugitive Modernities, Jessica Krug engages in a "rigorous examination of identity formation" of Kisama, a mountainous region in Angola that became a destination for those fleeing the slave trade in the late 16th century.
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Jessica Krug's book was the first history of the Kisama region.
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Jessica Krug has offered various narratives concerning her race and ethnicity.
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Jessica Krug has said that she is half Algerian-American and half German-American.
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Jessica Krug has said that she is a Bronx-bred Afro-"boricua" and has used the name "Jess La Bombalera".
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Hari Ziyad, the editor of RaceBaitr, said Jessica Krug had only come forward with the revelation of her racial deceptions because they had been discovered, and were about to be made public against her wishes.
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Jessica Krug had told her colleagues at GWU that she was Afro-Latina, and that she had been raised in the Bronx by a Puerto Rican mother who was abusive and addicted to drugs.
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On September 9,2020, GWU confirmed that Jessica Krug had resigned from the university.