Dr. Christina Dickerson-Cousin, Ph.D.

Dr. Christina Dickerson-Cousin is the daughter of Dr. Dennis C. Dickerson (Retired General Officer of the A.M.E. Church) and Mary A.E. Dickerson. She grew up in western Massachusetts with her three siblings. She received the B.A. in History from Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia in 2004, Summa Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa. During her junior year, she spent one semester studying abroad at the University of Warwick in Coventry, England. She entered the Ph.D. program in History at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee in 2005 as a Harold Stirling Vanderbilt Graduate Scholar. She earned her M.A. in 2007 and completed her Ph.D. in 2011. She has worked as a history professor at Cumberland County College in Vineland, New Jersey and at Gateway Community College in New Haven, Connecticut. Currently, she is an assistant professor in the Department of History and Geography at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. The University of Illinois Press published her book, Black Indians and Freedmen: The African Methodist Episcopal Church and Indigenous Americans, 1816-1916, in December 2021.

Christina Dickerson Cousin

Dr. Dickerson-Cousin has been a member of the A.M.E. Church for her entire life. She grew up at Israel A.M.E. Church in Albany, New York and has also belonged to congregations in Atlanta and Nashville. In 2011, she married Rev. Steven Anthony Cousin, Jr. Since 2013, she has served as the first lady of Bethel A.M.E. Church in New Haven, Connecticut. She and Rev. Cousin are the proud parents of two sons, Steven Anthony Cousin, III and Samuel Philip Allen Cousin.