George and Ann RichardsCivil War Era Center

Biography:

Erica Auriane Croft is a second-year Ph.D. student in U.S. History. Her dissertation project is on the Civil War era reformers, politicians, and writers who participated in the Freedmen’s Aid Movement.

Education:

M.A., University of Missouri 2024
B.A., Utah Valley University 2021

Research Interests:

U.S. political and constitutional history, the history of slavery, emancipation and abolition.