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Office 6274 Bunche Hall
Phone 310-825-9420
I currently am writing two books, one on the history of the slave family from the colonial thru
the antebellum eras and the other a history of slave women.
Vice Chair, Undergraduate Studies, Department of History, 1996-1998
Chair, Department of History, 1998-2002
Chair, Interdepartmental Program in Afro-American Studies, 2004-2010
Degrees
Ph.D. 1990, Yale University
Awards
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, 2015-2016
American Academy in Berlin Fellowship, Spring 2016
National Humanities Center John Hope Franklin Fellowship, 2015
Center for Advanced Studies and Behavioral Sciences, 2016-2017
21 Leaders for the 21st Century Award, Women's eNews
Ida B. Wells Award for Bravery in Journalism, 2014
Honored at BWHxG: Cross-Generational Dialogues in Black Women’s History Conference
(Graduate Mentor)
UCLA Gold Shield Faculty Award, 2014
James A. Rawley Prize, 2014,from Organization of American Historians; Best Book in History of
Race Relations in U.S. for Contested Murder of Latasha Harlins
Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities
UCLA Academic Advancement Program 40th Anniversary Faculty Recognition Award, 2012
Carter G. Woodson Fellowship
Smithsonian Fellowship in American History
President's Postdoctoral Fellowship
Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellowship
American Association of University Women Fellowship
Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and Public Policy Fellowship
Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Prize, Life in Black and White: Family and Community in the
Slave South, 1997
Distinguished Lecturer, Organization of American History
Distinguished Lecturer, Association for the Study of African American Life and History
Selected Publications
Editor and Annotator, The Journals of Charlotte Forten Grimke, Schomburg Library of NineteenthCentury Black Women Writers Series, Henry Louis Gates, General Editor (N.Y., Oxford U.P. 1988).
"Distress and Discord in Virginia Slave Families, 1830-1860," in Carol Bleser, ed., In Joy and In
Sorrow: Women, Family and Marriage in the Victorian South (New York: Oxford University Press,
1991).
"Charlotte Forten (1873-1914)" in G.J. Barker-Benfield and Catherine Clinton, eds. Portraits of
American Women from Settlement to the Civil War (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991).
"Slavery" in Darlene Clark Hine, ed., Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia, vol. 2
(New York: Carlson Publishing, Inc., 1993, Expanded and revised,2005.
"Abolition" in Darlene Clark Hine, ed. Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia, vol. 2
(New York: Calrson Publishing, Inc., 1993), Expanded and revised, 2005.
"Slave Family and Housing: in Ted Ownby, ed. Black and White: Cultural Interaction in the
Antebellum South (Oxford: University of Mississippi Press, 1993).
"Black Family Structure in Colonial and Antebellum Virginia: Amending the Revisionists", in Belinda
Tucker and Claudia Mitchell-Kernan, eds., The Decline in Marriage Among African-Americans:
Causes, Consequences, and Policy Implications (New York: Russell Sage, 1995).
"Gender Convention, Ideals and Identity Among Antebellum Virginia Slave Women," in Dalrene
Clark Hine and David Barry Gaspar, eds., More than Chattel: Black Women and Slavery in the
Americas (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996).
Life in Black and White: Family and Community in the Slave South (New York: Oxford University
Press, 1996)Winner, 1997 Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Prize.
"From Bondage to Freedom: Slavery in America" in Lara Gara, Brenda Stevenson and C. Peter
Ripley, Underground Railroad: An Epic in United States History (Washington D.C.: U.S. Department
of the Interior, 1998).
Female Violence and Justice on the Urban Frontier,” The Journal of African American
History (Spring 2004): 152-176.
Co-editor and contributor with Darlene Clark Hine, et. al., Black Women in America, 3 vol. set. (New
York: Oxford University Press, 2005).
“’Marsa Never Sot Aunt Rebecca Down’”: Enslaved Women, Religion, and Social Power in the
Antebellum South,” The Journal of African American History, 90 #4(Fall 2005): 345-367.
Introduction as Guest Editor, The Journal of African American History, 92#1(Winter 2007).
“The Question of the Female Slave Community and Culture in the American South: Methodological
and Ideological Approaches,” The Journal of African American History, 92 #1(Winter 2007): 74-95.
“History Lessons,” Telling Histories: Black Women Historians in the Ivory Tower ed. Deborah Gray
White (Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 2008): 158-171.
“Review Essay of Annette Gordon Reed’s The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family," The
Journal of African American History,96 #3 (Summer 2011): 1-15.
“Contextualizing the Runaway Experience: A Brief History of Slavery,” in Wiese and Carbado,
eds., The Long Walk to Freedom (Boston: Beacon Press, 2012).
"What's Love Got to Do With It? Concubinage and Enslaved Black Women and Girls in the
Antebellum South," Journal of African American History, vol. 98 #1 (Winter 2013): 99-125.
The Contested Murder of Latasha Harlins: Justice, Gender and the Origins of the LA Riots (Oxford
University Press, 2013), James Rawely Prize Winner, 2014. “Families, Slavery and Flight,” William
Still Digital History Project, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, http://hsp.org/history-online/digitalhistory-projects/william-still-dig....
“Family and Community in Slave Narratives,” in John Ernest, ed., The Oxford Handbook of the
African American Slave Narrative, (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014), 277-297.
“12 Years a Slave: Narrative, History and Film,” The Journal of African American History vol. 99, #12 (Winter-Spring 2014): 106-118.
“The Price of Slavery: Family, Community and Loss in Antebellum Texas,” Empire and Liberty: Civil
War in the American West, Virginia Scharff, ed., (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press,
2015.
What is Slavery? (Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, May 2015 ).
Graduate Students
Graduate students who have completed the Ph.D. under my direction include: Joan Johnson
(Northeastern Illinois University); Daina Ramey Berry (University of Texas, Austin); Jessica Millward
(UC Irvine); Marne Campbell (LMU); Jakobi Williams (University of Indiana, Bloomington); Deirdre
Cooper Owens (University of Mississippi); Jacob Dorman (University of Kansas); Jane Dabel (Cal
State, Long Beach); Tsekani Browne (Bowie State University), Eric Johnson, Aaron Silverman
(College of the Canyons) and Mark Okuhata
Current Courses by Term
2016 SUMMER SESSION
INTRODUCTION TO AFRO-AMERICAN HISTORY
 AF AMER M158B-1
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HIST M150B-1
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HIST M150B-2
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HIST M150B-3
FIAT LUX FRESHMAN SEMINARS
 HIST 19-2
Previous Courses by Term
2015 WINTER QUARTER
INTERRACIAL DYNAMICS IN AMERICAN CULTURE AND SOCIETY
 GE CLST 20B-1
INTRODUCTION TO AFRO-AMERICAN HISTORY
 HIST M150B-1
CAPSTONE SEMINAR: HISTORY -- U.S.
 HIST 191D-2
2014 FALL QUARTER
INTERRACIAL DYNAMICS IN AMERICAN CULTURE AND SOCIETY
 GE CLST 20A-1
INTRODUCTION TO HISTORICAL PRACTICE: VARIABLE TOPICS IN U.S. HISTORY
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HIST 97D-3
2014 SUMMER SESSION
INTRODUCTION TO AFRO-AMERICAN HISTORY
 AFRO-AM M158B-2
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HIST M150B-2
CAPSTONE SEMINAR: HISTORY -- U.S.
 HIST 191D-1
2013 SUMMER SESSION
INTRODUCTION TO AFRO-AMERICAN HISTORY
 AFRO-AM M158B-2

HIST M150B-2
CAPSTONE SEMINAR: HISTORY -- U.S.
 HIST 191D-2
2013 WINTER QUARTER
INTERRACIAL DYNAMICS IN AMERICAN CULTURE AND SOCIETY
 GE CLST 20B-1
CAPSTONE SEMINAR: HISTORY -- U.S.
 HIST 191D-1
2012 FALL QUARTER
INTERRACIAL DYNAMICS IN AMERICAN CULTURE AND SOCIETY
 GE CLST 20A-1
INTRODUCTION TO HISTORICAL PRACTICE: VARIABLE TOPICS IN U.S. HISTORY
 HIST 97D-4
2012 SUMMER SESSION
INTRODUCTION TO AFRO-AMERICAN HISTORY
 AFRO-AM M158B-1

HIST M150B-1
2012 WINTER QUARTER
INTERRACIAL DYNAMICS IN AMERICAN CULTURE AND SOCIETY
 GE CLST 20B-1
SEMINAR: AFRO-AMERICAN HISTORY

HIST 261B-1
2011 FALL QUARTER
INTERRACIAL DYNAMICS IN AMERICAN CULTURE AND SOCIETY
 GE CLST 20A-1
SEMINAR: AFRO-AMERICAN HISTORY
 HIST 261A-1
2011 SUMMER SESSION
INTRODUCTION TO AFRO-AMERICAN HISTORY
 AFRO-AM M158B-1

HIST M150B-1
2011 WINTER QUARTER
INTERRACIAL DYNAMICS IN AMERICAN CULTURE AND SOCIETY
 GE CLST 20B-1
2010 FALL QUARTER
INTERRACIAL DYNAMICS IN AMERICAN CULTURE AND SOCIETY
 GE CLST 20A-1
2010 SUMMER SESSION
INTRODUCTION TO AFRO-AMERICAN HISTORY
 AFRO-AM M158B-1

HIST M150B-1
2010 WINTER QUARTER
INTERRACIAL DYNAMICS IN AMERICAN CULTURE AND SOCIETY
 GE CLST 20B-1
2009 FALL QUARTER
INTERRACIAL DYNAMICS IN AMERICAN CULTURE AND SOCIETY
 GE CLST 20A-1
INTRODUCTION TO HISTORICAL PRACTICE: VARIABLE TOPICS IN U.S. HISTORY
 HIST 97D-1
SEMINAR: AFRO-AMERICAN HISTORY
 HIST 261B-1
2009 SUMMER SESSION
INTRODUCTION TO AFRO-AMERICAN HISTORY
 AFRO-AM M158B-1

HIST M150B-1
2009 SPRING QUARTER
INTERRACIAL DYNAMICS IN AMERICAN CULTURE AND SOCIETY: SPECIAL TOPICS
 GE CLST 20CW-7
SEMINAR: AFRO-AMERICAN HISTORY
 HIST 261A-1
2008 WINTER QUARTER
INTERRACIAL DYNAMICS IN AMERICAN CULTURE AND SOCIETY
 GE CLST 20B-1
2007 FALL QUARTER
INTERRACIAL DYNAMICS IN AMERICAN CULTURE AND SOCIETY
 GE CLST 20A-1
2007 WINTER QUARTER
INTERRACIAL DYNAMICS IN AMERICAN CULTURE AND SOCIETY
 GE CLST 20B-1
UNDERGRADUATE VARIABLE TOPICS SEMINARS: U.S.
 HIST 191D-7
TOPICS IN HISTORY: U.S.
 HIST 201H-1
2006 FALL QUARTER
INTERRACIAL DYNAMICS IN AMERICAN CULTURE AND SOCIETY
 GE CLST 20A-1
2006 SUMMER SESSION
INTRODUCTION TO AFRO-AMERICAN HISTORY
 AFRO-AM M158B-1

HIST M150B-1
2006 WINTER QUARTER
VARIABLE TOPICS IN AFRO-AMERICAN STUDIES
 AFRO-AM C191-5
2005 SUMMER SESSION
INTRODUCTION TO AFRO-AMERICAN HISTORY
 AFRO-AM M158B-1

HIST M150B-1
2005 WINTER QUARTER
INTERRACIAL DYNAMICS IN AMERICAN CULTURE AND SOCIETY
 GE CLST 20B-1
2004 FALL QUARTER
VARIABLE TOPICS IN AFRO-AMERICAN STUDIES
 AFRO-AM C191-4
ADVANCED HISTORIOGRAPHY: AFRO-AMERICAN
 AFRO-AM M200A-1
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HIST M200V-1
INTERRACIAL DYNAMICS IN AMERICAN CULTURE AND SOCIETY
 GE CLST 20A-1
UNDERGRADUATE VARIABLE TOPICS SEMINARS: U.S.
 HIST 191D-4
TOPICS IN HISTORY: U.S.
 HIST 201H-1
2004 SUMMER SESSION
INTRODUCTION TO AFRO-AMERICAN HISTORY
 AFRO-AM M158B-1

HIST M158B-1
2003 SUMMER SESSION
INTRODUCTION TO AFRO-AMERICAN HISTORY
 AFRO-AM M158B-1

HIST M158B-1
2002 SUMMER SESSION
UNDERGRADUATE SEMINAR
 HIST 197A-1
2001 FALL QUARTER
INTRODUCTION TO HISTORICAL PRACTICE
 HIST 99-11
2000 FALL QUARTER
INDEPENDENT STUDY FOR INTERNSHIPS
 HIST 199I-1
2000 SPRING QUARTER
INTERRACIAL DYNAMICS IN AMERICAN CULTURE, SOCIETY, AND LITERATURE:
SPECIAL TOPICS
 GE CLST 20C-1
INTRODUCTION TO HISTORICAL PRACTICE
 HIST 99-20
2000 WINTER QUARTER
INTERRACIAL DYNAMICS IN AMERICAN CULTURE, SOCIETY, AND LITERATURE
 GE CLST 20B-1
1999 FALL QUARTER
INTERRACIAL DYNAMICS IN AMERICAN CULTURE, SOCIETY, AND LITERATURE
 GE CLST 20A-1
1999 SUMMER SESSION
INTRODUCTION TO AFRO-AMERICAN HISTORY
 AFRO-AM M158B-1

HIST M158B-1
1999 WINTER QUARTER
INTRODUCTION TO AFRO-AMERICAN HISTORY
 AFRO-AM M158B-1

HIST M158B-1
1998 SUMMER SESSION

AFRO-AM M158B-1

HIST M158B-1
1998 SPRING QUARTER
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AFRO-AM M158C-1

HIST M158C-1
1997 FALL QUARTER

AFRO-AM M158B-1
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HIST 197T-1
Previous Courses by Course
HIST M150B
INTRODUCTION TO AFRO-AMERICAN HISTORY
2015 WINTER QUARTER
 HIST M150B-1
2014 SUMMER SESSION
 HIST M150B-2
2013 SUMMER SESSION
 HIST M150B-2
2012 SUMMER SESSION
 HIST M150B-1
2011 SUMMER SESSION
 HIST M150B-1
2010 SUMMER SESSION
 HIST M150B-1
2009 SUMMER SESSION
 HIST M150B-1
2006 SUMMER SESSION
 HIST M150B-1
2005 SUMMER SESSION
 HIST M150B-1
GE CLST 20B
INTERRACIAL DYNAMICS IN AMERICAN CULTURE AND SOCIETY
2015 WINTER QUARTER
 GE CLST 20B-1
2013 WINTER QUARTER
 GE CLST 20B-1
2012 WINTER QUARTER
 GE CLST 20B-1
2011 WINTER QUARTER
 GE CLST 20B-1
2010 WINTER QUARTER
 GE CLST 20B-1
2008 WINTER QUARTER
 GE CLST 20B-1
2007 WINTER QUARTER
 GE CLST 20B-1
2005 WINTER QUARTER
 GE CLST 20B-1
HIST 191D
CAPSTONE SEMINAR: HISTORY -- U.S.
2015 WINTER QUARTER
 HIST 191D-2
2014 SUMMER SESSION
 HIST 191D-1
2013 SUMMER SESSION
 HIST 191D-2
2013 WINTER QUARTER
 HIST 191D-1
GE CLST 20A
INTERRACIAL DYNAMICS IN AMERICAN CULTURE AND SOCIETY
2014 FALL QUARTER
 GE CLST 20A-1
2012 FALL QUARTER
 GE CLST 20A-1
2011 FALL QUARTER
 GE CLST 20A-1
2010 FALL QUARTER
 GE CLST 20A-1
2009 FALL QUARTER
 GE CLST 20A-1
2007 FALL QUARTER
 GE CLST 20A-1
2006 FALL QUARTER
 GE CLST 20A-1
2004 FALL QUARTER
 GE CLST 20A-1
HIST 97D
INTRODUCTION TO HISTORICAL PRACTICE: VARIABLE TOPICS IN U.S. HISTORY
2014 FALL QUARTER
 HIST 97D-3
2012 FALL QUARTER
 HIST 97D-4
2009 FALL QUARTER
 HIST 97D-1
AFRO-AM M158B
INTRODUCTION TO AFRO-AMERICAN HISTORY
2014 SUMMER SESSION
 AFRO-AM M158B-2
2013 SUMMER SESSION
 AFRO-AM M158B-2
2012 SUMMER SESSION
 AFRO-AM M158B-1
2011 SUMMER SESSION
 AFRO-AM M158B-1
2010 SUMMER SESSION
 AFRO-AM M158B-1
2009 SUMMER SESSION
 AFRO-AM M158B-1
2006 SUMMER SESSION
 AFRO-AM M158B-1
2005 SUMMER SESSION
 AFRO-AM M158B-1
2004 SUMMER SESSION
 AFRO-AM M158B-1
2003 SUMMER SESSION
 AFRO-AM M158B-1
1999 SUMMER SESSION
 AFRO-AM M158B-1
1999 WINTER QUARTER
 AFRO-AM M158B-1
HIST 261B
SEMINAR: AFRO-AMERICAN HISTORY
2012 WINTER QUARTER
 HIST 261B-1
2009 FALL QUARTER
 HIST 261B-1
HIST 261A
SEMINAR: AFRO-AMERICAN HISTORY
2011 FALL QUARTER
 HIST 261A-1
2009 SPRING QUARTER
 HIST 261A-1
GE CLST 20CW
INTERRACIAL DYNAMICS IN AMERICAN CULTURE AND SOCIETY: SPECIAL TOPICS
2009 SPRING QUARTER
 GE CLST 20CW-7
HIST 201H
TOPICS IN HISTORY: U.S.
2007 WINTER QUARTER
 HIST 201H-1
2004 FALL QUARTER
 HIST 201H-1
HIST 191D
UNDERGRADUATE VARIABLE TOPICS SEMINARS: U.S.
2007 WINTER QUARTER
 HIST 191D-7
2004 FALL QUARTER
 HIST 191D-4
AFRO-AM C191
VARIABLE TOPICS IN AFRO-AMERICAN STUDIES
2006 WINTER QUARTER
 AFRO-AM C191-5
2004 FALL QUARTER
 AFRO-AM C191-4
HIST M200V
ADVANCED HISTORIOGRAPHY: AFRO-AMERICAN
2004 FALL QUARTER
 HIST M200V-1
AFRO-AM M200A
ADVANCED HISTORIOGRAPHY: AFRO-AMERICAN
2004 FALL QUARTER
 AFRO-AM M200A-1
HIST M158B
INTRODUCTION TO AFRO-AMERICAN HISTORY
2004 SUMMER SESSION
 HIST M158B-1
2003 SUMMER SESSION
 HIST M158B-1
1999 SUMMER SESSION
 HIST M158B-1
1999 WINTER QUARTER
 HIST M158B-1
HIST 197A
UNDERGRADUATE SEMINAR
2002 SUMMER SESSION
 HIST 197A-1
HIST 99
INTRODUCTION TO HISTORICAL PRACTICE
2001 FALL QUARTER
 HIST 99-11
2000 SPRING QUARTER
 HIST 99-20
HIST 199I
INDEPENDENT STUDY FOR INTERNSHIPS
2000 FALL QUARTER
 HIST 199I-1
GE CLST 20C
INTERRACIAL DYNAMICS IN AMERICAN CULTURE, SOCIETY, AND LITERATURE: SPECIAL TOPICS
2000 SPRING QUARTER
 GE CLST 20C-1
GE CLST 20B
INTERRACIAL DYNAMICS IN AMERICAN CULTURE, SOCIETY, AND LITERATURE
2000 WINTER QUARTER
 GE CLST 20B-1
GE CLST 20A
INTERRACIAL DYNAMICS IN AMERICAN CULTURE, SOCIETY, AND LITERATURE
1999 FALL QUARTER
 GE CLST 20A-1
HIST M158B
1998 SUMMER SESSION
 HIST M158B-1
AFRO-AM M158B
1998 SUMMER SESSION
 AFRO-AM M158B-1
1997 FALL QUARTER
 AFRO-AM M158B-1
HIST M158C
1998 SPRING QUARTER
 HIST M158C-1
AFRO-AM M158C
1998 SPRING QUARTER
 AFRO-AM M158C-1
HIST 197T
1997 FALL QUARTER
 HIST 197T-1
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