Myra Bynoe is the Lyford Paterson Edwards and Helen Gray Edwards Professor of Historical Studies and Vice President for Academic Inclusive Excellence at Bard College, where she has taught since 1985. She is the author of "Lord, Please Don't Take Me in August": African Americans in Newport, Rhode Island and Saratoga Springs, New York 1870 to 1930 and Freedom's Gardener: James F. Brown, Horticulture, and the Hudson Valley in Antebellum America. She also edited Mighty Change, Tall Within: Black Identity in the Hudson Valley. She is completing a book on the origins of public history in New York and the country. She has served her church as a board member, special music soloist, Bible study leader, and most recently, as project leader of a Louisville Institute-funded study of the church and the economy, the result of which has been the co-writing of a Bible study on this subject.
