Ann Ostendorf

Dr. Ann Ostendorf is currently working on the histories of the Roma (Gypsy) diasporas in the Atlantic World, including in the colonial Chesapeake, French and Spanish Louisiana, and the nineteenth-century United States. Her scholarly interests also include cultural history, studies of ethnicity and race, early Native American history, and the lower Mississippi River region. She enjoys yoga, vegetarian soul food, Fútbol Club Barcelona, world music, travel and the outdoors.