Kimberly Cheek

Kimberly Cheek was born and raised in Raleigh, North Carolina. She attended North Carolina Central University from 1999-2002 where she graduated Magna Cum Laude with a B.A. in History with a concentration in International Policy. She enrolled at the Masters program in History at North Carolina Central University in 2003 where she focused her plan of study on the African Presence in Modern Europe. She received her Masters of Arts in History in 2005. Her thesis project was circum-Atlantic history titled, "The Black Poor: The Search For Independence in Sierra Leone, 1782-1820." Kimberly also received an M.LS. from North Carolina Central University with a focus in Archives and Records Management. Currently, she is a 5th-year doctoral student in American History at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Her dissertation is titled, "The Transnational Black Press, Public Print Culture, and Public Perceptions of the Second Italo-Ethiopian War, 1934-1940."