University of Pittsburgh: Department of History

Faculty

Lecturer
Indiana University (1998)

University of Pittsburgh
Department of History
3705 Posvar Hall
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
412-624-2441
lit2@pitt.edu

Field(s)	United States African American Women Popular Culture
Teaching	United States Since 1877 African American History to the Civil War African American History since the Civil War History of American Popular Culture
Selected Publications	“Women and the Law,” Encyclopedia of the Nineteenth Century (forthcoming) “Eddie Kendricks,” The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives (Charles Scribner Sons, 2001)
Honors/Awards	Council of Students of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Teaching Award, Washington University (1996)
Project(s)	"Uneasy Alliances: Interracial Efforts to End Lynching in the 1930s" considers how some African Americans and Whites overcame traditional racial divisions in order to eliminate the vicious practice of lynching from the American landscape.