Experts Available to Discuss Black History Month
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Michelle Sherrard
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BLACK HISTORY MONTH
Adele Logan Alexander
Adjunct Professor of History
Alexander’s research and teaching incorporates the black Atlantic world, African-American history, family history, gender issues, and military and social history. Her first book examined the lives and significance of non-enslaved women of color in the rural antebellum South. Her second explored the Americanization and evolving citizenship of an African (and Anglo-) American family in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In 2003, the African American Historical and Genealogical Society recognized her contributions to the study of family history with an award for Outstanding Lifetime Contribution.
James Miller
Chair of the Department of American Studies; Professor of English and of American Studies; Fulbright Scholar
Miller’s work focuses on twentieth century African-American cultural politics, including explorations of literature, film, and music. He wrote his Ph.D. dissertation on the works of Richard Wright and, since that time, has a long-standing interest in the relationship between social and political movements and African-American cultural production. Miller has written extensively about individual African-American writers, about film, and about African-American music. Miller's current research examines the interactions between African-American and South African jazz musicians between 1959 and 1965, as the pace of freedom struggles in both countries began to rapidly escalate.
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