Dorothy A. Boyd-Bragg is Professor of History, Affiliated with the James Madison Center. She received her Ph.D. from Temple University, the M.A. from Ohio State University, and the B.A. from Temple University.
      Dr. Boyd-Bragg teaches courses in Global Culture, Tudor-Stuart England, Genealogical Research and Family History, and Documentary Editing.
      Her research interests include local history and the transcription and editing of documents. She is the author/editor of Register of Free Blacks: Rockingham County, Virginia, 1807-1859. Bowie, Maryland: Heritage Books, Inc., 1992; Marriage Notices from Extant Issues of the Rockingham Register, Harrisonburg, Virginia, 1822-1870. Bowie, Maryland: Heritage Books, Inc., 1993; Registers of Free Negroes, Botetourt County, Virginia, Athens, Georgia: Iberian Publishing Company, 1993; and, This Heritage: The Story of Lutheran Beginnings in the Lower Shenandoah Valley and of Grace Church, Winchester, Expanded Edition, 1753-2003. Staunton, Virginia: Lot’s Wife Publishing, 2003. She has also published numerous articles.

Dorothy A Boyd-Bragg
(Full-time faculty)
History Department
MOOD 210A
MSC 1204
office phone: +1 540 568 3548
e-mail: boydbrda@jmu.edu