Black Intellectual History Panels at #AHA16


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AM carousel image_3We here at AAIHS are getting excited for this week’s American Historical Association conference. On the program you will find current and former AAIHS bloggers, as well as many of our readers and members. Below is a list of the Black intellectual history panels at this year’s conference.

“Much More Than Any One Phrase Can Name”: Rethinking the Contours of Respectability in the African Diaspora, 1910–60
AHA Session 25
Thursday, January 7, 2016: 1:00 PM-3:00 PM
Imperial Ballroom A (Atlanta Marriott Marquis, Marquis Level)
Chair:
Tiffany Gill, University of Delaware
Papers:

Black Beauty and the Archive: Studio Portraiture, Gender, and the Image of Postcolonial Black Britain
Kennetta Hammond Perry, East Carolina University

“These Ladies Do ‘Business’ with a Capital B”: Female Entrepreneurship in Early 20th-Century Black Theater
Michelle R. Scott, University of Maryland Baltimore County

“Africa Waits for Her Daughters No More”: The “Efficient Womanhood” of Ethel Trew Dunalp and the Diasporic Women Poets of the UNIA
Natanya Duncan, Lehigh University

Comment:
Reena N. Goldthree, Dartmouth College
Digital History, Slave Databases, and Mapping
AHA Session 27
Thursday, January 7, 2016: 1:00 PM-3:00 PM
Regency Ballroom VI (Hyatt Regency Atlanta, Lower Level 1)
Chair:
Robert K. Nelson, University of Richmond
Papers:
Origins and Destinations: Linking West Africa’s Historical Geography to the Transatlantic Slave Trade Database
Henry B. Lovejoy, University of Texas at Austin

Mapping Free Africans and Circuits of Information in Mid-19th-Century Rio de Janeiro
Daryle Williams, University of Maryland

Landscape and Time in Mapping the Geography of Escape: Alabama as a Case Study
Joshua D. Rothman, University of Alabama
Hiding out in the Marigny: Mapping as Storytelling about Fugitives from Urban Slavery
Mary Niall Mitchell, University of New Orleans

Comment:
Robert K. Nelson, University of Richmond
Fugitive Slaves and Spaces of Freedom in North America, 1800–60
AHA Session 37
Thursday, January 7, 2016: 3:30 PM-5:30 PM
Grand Hall C (Hyatt Regency Atlanta, Lower Level 2)
Chair:
Sydney Nathans, Duke University
Papers:
Seeking Freedom in the Midst of Slavery: Fugitive Slaves in the Antebellum South
Damian Alan Pargas, Leiden University

Northern Vigilance, Personal Liberty, and the Contest over Fugitives
Matthew Pinsker, Dickinson College

Mexican Canaan: Fugitive Slaves in Mexico
Mekala Audain, The College of New Jersey

The Meaning of Fugitive Slave Freedom in Canada West: Politics, Law, British Free Soil Diplomacy, and Black Agency “North of Erie”
Gordon Barker, Bishop’s University
Why Caribbean Women’s History Matters

AHA Session 32

Thursday, January 7, 2016: 3:30PM-5:30PM
Room A601 (Atlanta Marriott Marquis, Atrium Level)
Chair:
Eileen J. Findlay, American University
Panel:
Michelle Chi Chase, Bloomfield College
Joan Victoria Flores-Villalobos, New York University
Anne Macpherson, College at Brockport (State University of New York)
Tyesha Maddox, New York University
Comment:
Michele Johnson, York University
Disorderly City: Race, Gender, and Social Transformation in Civil War-Era New Orleans
AHA Session 75
Friday, January 8, 2016: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
Room A704 (Atlanta Marriott Marquis, Atrium Level)
Chair:
Leslie M. Harris, Emory University
Papers:
The Cook and the General: Black Women, the Union Army, and the End of Slavery in New Orleans
James Illingworth, University of California, Santa Cruz

“Pugnacious Females”: Women’s Public Violence and the Police in Reconstruction-Era New Orleans
Elizabeth P. Smith, University of Arkansas
Comment:
Nik Ribianszky, Georgia Gwinnett College
The Confluence of Race, Religion, and Society: The Subversive Politics of Racial and Religious Minorities in the Progressive Era
American Society of Church History 11
Friday, January 8, 2016: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
International Ballroom 1 (Atlanta Marriott Marquis, International Level)
Chair:
W. Paul Reeve, University of Utah
Papers:
Whiteness, Christianity, and Civilization: Western Culture at a Black University, Howard University, 1900–30
Matthew Bowman, Henderson State University

Liquor and Liberty: African American Preachers, Poll Taxes, and Anti-Prohibition in Early 20th-Century Texas
Brendan Payne, Baylor University

The “Evil of Race Suicide Now Sweeping Like a Blight”: Eugenics and Racialized Religion in the Progressive Era
Joseph Stuart, University of Utah
Comment:
Elizabeth Jemison, Clemson University
Journals as Intellectual History: A New Historiography through Digital Mapping
AHA Session 96
Friday, January 8, 2016: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM
Crystal Ballroom C (Hilton Atlanta, First Floor)
Chair:
Connie L. Lester, University of Central Florida
Panel:
Scot A. French, University of Central Florida
Sarika Joshi, Santa Fe College
Kevin Mitchell Mercer, University of Central Florida
David J. Staley, Ohio State University
Comment:
Alex Lichtenstein, Indiana University Bloomington
“Why Sit Ye Here and Die?” Black American and Haitian Migrations within the Atlantic World
AHA Session 114
Friday, January 8, 2016: 2:30 PM-4:30 PM
Crystal Ballroom C (Hilton Atlanta, First Floor)
Chair:
Erica R. Armstrong Dunbar, University of Delaware
Papers:
From South to North: Haitian Emigration to Early America
Ronald Angelo Johnson, Texas State University

Crossing the Caribbean: Haitian Leaders Efforts to Attract African Americans
Sara Fanning, Texas Woman’s University

“Shall We Flee or Shall We Fight?” Anti-emigrationists and the Haitian Emigration Movement in the Civil War Era
Ousmane K. Power-Greene, Clark University
Comment:
Chris Dixon, University of Queensland
Centering African American and Caribbean Women’s Activism and Travels within Global Freedom Struggles, 1940–90
AHA Session 115
Friday, January 8, 2016: 2:30 PM-4:30 PM
Room 303 (Hilton Atlanta, Third Floor)
Chair:
Barbara D. Savage, University of Pennsylvania
Papers:
Beyond Civil Rights: Pauli Murray’s Nonviolence
Nico Slate, Carnegie Mellon University

Black Women Activist’s Networks, Postwar Travels, and Emerging Cold War Politics
Dayo Gore, University of California, San Diego

Becoming a Global Citizen: Paulette Nardal’s Activism and Travels after 1945 
Imaobong Denis Umoren, University of Oxford

Everywhere and Nowhere: The Historical Erasure of the Transnational Activist Ana Livia Cordero 
Sandy Placido, Harvard University
Local People, Thinking Globally: Race, Migration, and the Black Freedom Struggle
AHA Session 124
Friday, January 8, 2016: 2:30 PM-4:30 PM
Imperial Ballroom A (Atlanta Marriott Marquis, Marquis Level)
Chair:
Albert S. Broussard, Texas A&M University
Papers:
Creoles of Color and Constructions of Race in Jim-Crow Houston
Tyina Steptoe, University of Arizona

“A Case of National Proportions”: The “Jim Crow” Baby Contest of 1947 in Casper, Wyoming
Kevin A. Leonard, Western Washington University

Covering a Protest, Rallying a People: Editor Emory O. Jackson and the Birmingham Bus Boycott
Kimberley Mangun, University of Utah
Comment:
Albert S. Broussard, Texas A&M University
African American Girls and Global Citizenship in the 20th Century
Society for the History of Children and Youth
Friday, January 8, 2016: 2:30 PM-4:30 PM
Room 206 (Hilton Atlanta, Second Floor)
Chair:
Corinne Field, University of Virginia
Papers:
New Negro Girlhood: Race, Gender, and Material Culture
LaKisha Michelle Simmons, University at Buffalo (State University of New York)

The Right to Wear Silk: Black College Girls, Gendered Discourse, and the Student Protests of the 1920s
Amira Rose Davis, Johns Hopkins University

Becoming Ambassadors and Future Leaders: Black Girl Citizenship in Postwar America
Miya Carey, Rutgers University-New Brunswick

Black Girl Politics in the Era of Black Power: A Local Study of Detroit
Dara Walker, Rutgers University-New Brunswick

Comment:

Rachel Devlin, Rutgers University-New Brunswick

The Misconception of the Negro: Transnational Histories of Black Education in the 19th and 20th Centuries
AHA Session 145
Saturday, January 9, 2016: 9:00 AM-11:00 AM
Room 313/314 (Hilton Atlanta, Third Floor)
Chair:
Ronald Butchart, University of Georgia
Papers:
Fixed as That of an Inferior? Antebellum Gens De Couleur Libres, Education, and the US Discourse of Black Deficiency
Alisha Johnson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Abolitionist Colleges and the Transatlantic Education of West African Students
John Bell, Harvard University

Exporting the American Dilemma: Black American Technicians and Washington’s Aid to Africa
Hannah Higgin, University of Cambridge

Global East African Students in a Late Imperial World
Timothy Nicholson, State University of New York at Delhi
Comment:
Ronald Butchart, University of Georgia
Caribbean Nationalisms and Community Formation: Violence, Memory, and the Politics of Boundary-Making in Guyana, Haiti, and Trinidad
AHA Session 183
Conference on Latin American History 41
Saturday, January 9, 2016: 11:30 AM-1:30 PM
Room A706 (Atlanta Marriott Marquis, Atrium Level)
Chair:
Lauren (Robin) Derby, University of California, Los Angeles
Panel:
Ramaesh J. Bhagirat, University of Chicago
Winter Schneider, University of California, Los Angeles
Vikram Tamboli, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Comment:

Lauren (Robin) Derby, University of California, Los Angeles

 

Black Reconstructions: Rethinking the State, the Body, and the Body Politic in Late 19th-Century America
AHA Session 200
Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 5
Saturday, January 9, 2016: 2:30 PM-4:30 PM
Salon B (Hilton Atlanta, Second Floor)
Chair:
Carole T. Emberton, University at Buffalo (State University of New York)
Papers:
“Midwives of Invention”: Black Healers and Spiritual Rebirth in Civil War Refugee Camps
Abigail J. Cooper, Brandeis University

“As Though They Had Not Been Slaves”: Federal Surgeons and Black Bodies in Reconstructed America
Dale Kretz, Washington University in St. Louis

Imperial Reconstructions: Black Soldiers and the Conquest of a Continent, 1865–80
A. Hope McGrath, University of Pennsylvania
Comment:
Carole T. Emberton, University at Buffalo (State University of New York)
The Future of the African American Past
AHA Session 218
Saturday, January 9, 2016: 2:30 PM-4:30 PM
Grand Ballroom B (Hilton Atlanta, Second Floor)
Chair:
Thomas C. Holt, University of Chicago
Panel:

David W. Blight, Yale University
Lonnie G. Bunch III, National Museum of African American History and Culture
Johnnetta B. Cole, Smithsonian National Museum of African Art
Annette Gordon-Reed, Harvard University

“Struggle” and “Resistance” in African American Women’s History
AHA Session 244
Sunday, January 10, 2016: 8:30 AM-10:30 AM
Room 309/310 (Hilton Atlanta, Third Floor)
Chair:
Judith Giesberg, Villanova University
Panel:
Cynthia R. Greenlee, Pennsylvania State University
Chris Hayashida-Knight, Pennsylvania State University
Kellie Carter Jackson, Hunter College, City University of New York
Finding Freedom: New Perspectives on Movement, Mobility, and Self-Emancipation from Slavery in the Early Republic
AHA Session 247
Sunday, January 10, 2016: 8:30 AM-10:30 AM
Salon C (Hilton Atlanta, Second Floor)
Chair:
Edward Baptist, Cornell University
Papers:
Liberty’s Diaspora: Enslaved Women’s Routes to Freedom in the Late 18th-Century Atlantic World
Barbara Krauthamer, University of Massachusetts Amherst

The Early Stages of the Underground Railroad in the Middle Atlantic States, 1775–93
Graham R. Hodges, Colgate University

Dismal Freedom: Self-Emancipation, Marronage, and the Resistance Communities of the Great Dismal Swamp
J. Brent Morris, University of South Carolina Beaufort

Comment:
Cassandra Newby-Alexander, Norfolk State University
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Chris Cameron

Chris Cameron is an Associate Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. His research and teaching interests are in African American and early American history, especially abolitionist thought, liberal religion, and secularism. He is the author of 'To Plead Our Own Cause: African Americans in Massachusetts and the Making of the Antislavery Movement' (Kent State University Press, 2014) and 'Black Freethinkers: A History of African American Secularism' (Northwestern University Press, 2019). Follow him on Twitter @ccamrun2.