Executive Director
Dr. Gunter is an historian of the US South with a foundation in Southern Studies. She is an educator as well as a scholar, having spent the last decade in classrooms teaching history, media studies, Southern Studies, ethics, philosophy, and public speaking. She brings administrative experience as the former Director of the South Carolina Collaborative on Race and Reconciliation at the University of South Carolina, modeled on the William Winter Institute for Racial Reconciliation. As an outgrowth of this work, she created the South Carolina Youth Collective which since 2019 has brought together high school students from across the state for a one-week summer residential program. This humanities program focuses on the examination of place-based history, civic action, and personal leadership.
She earned a B.A. and M.A. in Southern Studies from the University of Mississippi and a Ph.D. in History from the University of South Carolina. She is a public historian who specializes in the intersections of region, gender, race, health, law, and activism.
