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Ph.D., Duke University
Assistant Professor of History
Recent Scholarship:
Co-wrote with Tiya Miles: "African Americans in Indian Societies"
in Handbook of North American Indians, volume 12 (Washington, D.C.:
Smithsonian Institution, 2004).
"Born a Slave, Born Free and 'To Go Free': African American Experiences
in the Louisiana Purchase Area during the Antebellum Period." in The
Louisiana Purchase and Its People: Perspectives from the New Orleans
Conference. Paul Hoffman, editor (Lafayette: Louisiana Historical
Association and the Center for Lousiana Studies, 2004).
"Born and Raised among These People, I Don't Want to Know Any
Other": Slaves' Acculturation in Nineteenth-Century Indian
Territory," in Confounding the Color Line: The Indian-Black Experience
in North America, James A. Brooks, ed. (The University of Nebraska Press,
2002).
"Selected Bibliography of Black Women and Slavery in the
Americas," (with David Barry Gaspar) in More Than Chattel: Black Women
and Slavery in the Americas, ed. by David Barry Gaspar and Darlene Clark
Hine (Indiana University Press, 1996).
Interests:
African-American and African-Caribbean Women's History and Literature
Black Feminism(s) and Womanism(s).
Courses Taught:
Black Feminism/Womanism in U.S. Popular Culture (Winter 2007).
Awards:
Dartmouth Rockefeller Research Scholar, 2004-2006
Wilson Faculty Research Fellowship, 2005-2006
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