Krug, Jessica A., 1982-

Jessica Anne Krug (born c. 1982) is an American historian, author, and activist. Krug taught at George Washington University (GWU) from 2012 to 2020, eventually becoming a tenured associate professor of history there. Her publications include Fugitive Modernities: Kisama and the Politics of Freedom, a history of the Kisama region in Angola; the book was a finalist for the Frederick Douglass Prize and the Harriet Tubman Prize. In September 2020, Krug admitted that she had misrepresented her race and ethnicity during her career by pretending to be Black and Latina when she is actually a white Jewish woman. Shortly thereafter, she resigned from her position at GWU at the request of the university's history department.