In September of 2007, Dr. Amani Marshall joined the Black American Studies Program as a Postdoctoral Researcher.  As part of her appointment, Dr. Marshall will be offering the course, “Gender and Slavery” during the spring semester of 2008.  Dr. Marshall joins us from Indiana University-Bloomington where she earned her Ph.D. in African Diaspora History.  Her dissertation, “Female Fugitives: Enslaved Women’s Resistance in South Carolina and Georgia, 1820-1865” examined the resistance efforts of female runaway slaves in the antebellum South using a multidisciplinary approach through the lens of an intersectional analysis.

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Amani Marshall's webpage