Adele Logan Alexander

Adele L. Alexander's research and teaching incorporates the black Atlantic world, African American history, family history, gender issues, 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. (Complete C.V.)

Selected Publications

Homelands and Waterways: The American Journey of the Bond Family, 1846-1926. New York: Pantheon, 1999.

• Winner for the top non-fiction prize of the Black Caucus of the American Library Association.

Ambiguous Lives: Free Women of Color in Rural Georgia, 1789-1879. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1991.

• Winner, Gustavus Myers award as one of the year's outstanding books promoting racial understanding.

Courses Taught

Hist 101: The Civil Rights and Black Power Movements
Hist 101: American Slavery
Hist 173: African-American History
Hist 185: Black Women in U.S. History

Education

Ph.D., Howard University, 1994.