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Professor
Chair, Department in Afroamerican and African Studies

• Affiliation(s)

  • Department of Afroamerican and African Studies
    Program in American Culture
    Native American Studies Program
    Department of Women's Studies

• Fields of Study

  • African-American and Native-American interrelated and comparative histories, esecially 19th-century
  • African-American women's istory and literature
  • Native American women's history and literature
  • U.S. women's history

• About

  Selected Publications:

  "The House on Diamond Hill: A Cherokee Plantation Story (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010)

  "Ties That Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom", (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005)

  "Circular Reasoning: Recentering Cherokee Women in the Antiremoval Campaigns,” American Quarterly 61:2 (June 2009).

• Education

  • Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 2000