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Areas of Research/Interest: Gender and sexuality, U.S. history (1860-1940), African American, African diaspora, nationalism and feminist theory. Also interested in slavery and emancipation, intellectual and social histories, history of medicine, West/East/South Africa, Brazil and film theory.
Fellowships/Honors: North American Co-Editor of Gender & History (2005-2008); Schomburg Center & National Endowment for the Humanities Scholar-in-Residence, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library, 2001– 2002; J. Franklin Jameson Fellowship Award, American Historical Association & the Library of Congress, 2001– 2002 (Declined); Fellow, Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis, 1997 – 1998; Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, 1996 – 1997; Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellow, 1996 – 1997 (Declined); Huggins-Quarles Award, Organization of American Historians, 1996; Pre-Doctoral Fellow, The Carter G. Woodson Institute for Afro-American and African Studies, University of Virginia, 1994 – 1996; Field Researcher (Louisiana), “Behind the Veil: Documenting African American Life in the Jim Crow South,” Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University, 1994; Researcher, Martin Luther King, Jr., Papers Project, Stanford University, 1991.
Select Publications:
Righteous Propagation:
African Americans and the Politics of Racial Destiny after Reconstruction (Chapel Hill & London: University
of North Carolina Press, 2004).
Dialogues of Dispersal: Gender,
Sexuality, and African Diasporas,
co-edited with Sandra Gunning and Tera W. Hunter (Oxford & Malden,
MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2004). Also published as a special
issue of Gender & History, 15:3 (November 2003).
Introduction, "Gender, Sexuality,
and African Diasporas," co-authored with Gunning and Hunter, in
Dialogues of Dispersal, pp. 1-12; Gender & History
15:3 (November 2003): 397-408.
"Practising Gender History,"
editorial co-authored with Karen Adler and Ross Balzaretti, Gender
& History 20:1 (April 2008): 1-7.
"'Lower Orders,' Racial Hierarchies,
and Rights Rhetoric: Evolutionary Echoes in Elizabeth Cady Stanton's
Thought during the late 1860s," in Elizabeth
Cady Stanton, Feminist as Thinker: A Reader in Documents and Essays, ed. Ellen Carol DuBois and Richard Cándida
Smith (New York: New York University Press, 2007).
Comment on Fernando Martínez Heredia's
"Nationalisms, Races, and Classes in the Revolution of 1895 and
the Cuban First Republic," Cuban
Studies 33 (2002): 124-128.
Exhibit review, "Of
the People: The African American Experience,"
Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History (Detroit, Michigan), The Public Historian 23:2 (Spring 2001), pp. 124-126.
"Silences Broken, Silences Kept:
Gender & Sexuality in African-American History," Gender & History 11:3 (November 1999), pp. 433-444. Also published
in Gender & History:
Retrospect and Prospect, ed.
Leonore Davidoff, Keith McClelland, and Eleni Varikas (Oxford: Blackwell
Publishers Ltd., 2000), pp. 15-26. Translated as "Silences
maintenus et secrets rompus: genre et sexualité dans l'histoire africaine-américaine"
(trans. Anne Hugon), Clio:
Histoire, Femmes, et Sociétés
16 (2002): 271-291.
"'The Black Man's Burden':
African Americans, Imperialism, and Notions of Racial Manhood, 1890-1910," International Review of Social History
Supplement 44:4 (1999), pp.
77-99. Simultaneously published in Complicating
Categories: Gender, Class, Race and Ethnicity,
ed. Eileen Boris and Angelique Janssens (Cambridge University Press,
1999), pp. 77-99.
Published Fieldwork:
Interviews with Delores Thompson Aaron,
Jessie Lee Chassion, and Brenda Bozant Davillier in Remembering
Jim Crow: African Americans Tell About Life in the Segregated South,
A Book-and-CD Set, ed. William
H. Chafe, Raymond Gavins, and Robert Korstad with Paul Oritz, Robert
Parrish, Jennifer Ritterhouse, Keisha Roberts, and Nicole Waligora-Davis
(New York: The New Press, 2001).
Excerpt of interview with Jessie Lee
Chassion available on "Voices from Behind the Veil: Selections
from the Center for Documentary Studies" (disc two, track three);
produced by Stephen Smith of American Radio Works in collaboration with
the Behind the Veil Project, Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University.
Current Projects:
Idle Anxieties: Race, Gender, and
Idleness during the Great Depression (monograph; in process).
Connexions: Histories of Race and
Sex in North America (anthology co-edited with Jennifer Morgan and
Jennifer Brier; in process).
"The Body as Archive: African
Americans and Taxonomies of 'Miscegenation'" (tentative title);
article in process.
Selected Consulting:
"America I Am: The
African-American Imprint" (touring museum exhibition; John Fleming,
Executive Producer; Fath Davis Ruffins, National Curator)
"A Dream Deferred" (Program
4), course installment for "Transforming America: U.S. History
Since 1877," PBS Adult Learning Service & Annenberg/CPB.
Producer: Dallas Telelearning. Preview Airdate: February 17, 2005.
Release date: Fall 2005.
"Marcus Garvey: Look for
Me in the Whirlwind" (documentary); American
Experience (PBS). Produced
and Directed by Stanley Nelson; Associate Producer, Gwendolyn
D. Dixon; written by Marcia Smith; Executive Consultant,
Robert Hill. First Airdate: February 12, 2001.
“Abraham Lincoln and the Legacy of
Emancipation” (documentary); The Abraham Lincoln Film Project.
Produced by Drew VandeCreek; Directed by Jeffrey Chown;
written by Jeffrey Chown and Drew VandeCreek. In production.
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