She holds the Edwards Professor of American History Endowed Chair at Princeton University.
[1] Hunter published her first book, To 'Joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women's Lives and Labors After the Civil War, in 1997.
[2] To 'Joy My Freedom is an account of the lives of southern African American women, specifically domestic workers in Atlanta, from the end of slavery through the beginnings of the Great Migration.
[6] In 2017, Hunter published Bound in Wedlock: Slave and Free Black Marriage in the Nineteenth Century.
[7] Bound in Wedlock chronicles a variety of types of intimate relationships, from highly temporary arrangements to ones that were as permanent as possible, both within and outside of formal legal marriage institutions.