James Kolb

  • PhD Student, Department of History, College of Arts & Sciences
  • CAAAS GRADUATE FELLOWS
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James Kolb is a first-year PhD student in the History Department at the University of Colorado Boulder. He earned his BA in History from the University of Connecticut in 2020, where he also minored in Geography and Geographic Information Systems (GIS). His research focuses on African American migration during and after the Civil War, particularly the exodus of over 100,000 Black Southerners who resettled in the North and West. He uses census microdata, Freedmen's Bureau transportation orders, and GIS tools to reconstruct chain migration patterns and explore the linkages between these early movements and the Great Migration in the twentieth century.

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