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Françoise N. Hamlin

Hans Rothfels Assistant Professor of History and Africana Studies

Françoise N. Hamlin (Ph.D. Yale University, 2004) is the Hans Rothfels Assistant Professor of Africana Studies and History and teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in twentieth century African American history, southern history, U.S. history and cultural studies. Her current research includes work on the civil rights movement in Mississippi with critical analysis on the trajectory of the movement, the role of gender within the movement, and concepts of success and progress.

Selected Honors and Awards:

  • Charles Warren Center Fellow, Harvard University. 2007-2008.
  • Franklin L. Riley Dissertation Prize, Mississippi Historical Society. 2006.
  • C. Vann Woodward Dissertation Prize, Southern Historical Association.2005
  • Du Bois-Mandela-Rodney Fellowship, Center for Afroamerican and African Studies, University of Michigan. 2004-2005.
  • Sylvia Ardyn Boone Prize for work in African American culture & history, Yale University. 2004.
  • Albert J. Beveridge Research Grant, American Historical Association. 2003.
  • Huggins-Quarles Award, Organization of American Historians. 2002.

Representative Publications:
Books:

  • The Story Isn’t Finished:  Continuing Histories of the Civil Rights Movement. (manuscript in progress)
  • (with Yemisi Jimoh) War, Freedom and Patriotism: An Anthology of African American Writing Manuscript in progress. Expected publication 2009.

Articles

  • Book review of Winifred Breines, The Trouble Between Us in Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000, 10:4, December 2006.
  • “Vera Mae Pigee (1925- ): Mothering the Movement,” Proteus: A Journal of Ideas 22:1, Spring 2005, 19-27.
  • “Montgomery Bus Boycott,” Black Women in America: A Historical Encyclopedia, Second Edition edited by Darlene Clark Hine (Oxford University Press, 2005).
  • “The Book Hasn’t Closed, The Story is Not Finished: Coahoma County, Mississippi, Civil Rights and the Recovery of a History,” in Sound Historian: Journal of the Texas Oral History Association 2:2002.
  • “Delivering Ourselves From Evil”: Researching Histories of the Mississippi Delta,” (working title) The Journal of the Historical Society forthcoming.
  • Entries about Aaron Henry and Vera Pigee for the African American National Biography edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Evelyn Higginbotham (Oxford University Press, 2008).

 

Courses Taught

  • Rethinking the Civil Rights Movement
  • Autobiography of the Civil Rights Movement
  • Formation of Modern American Culture
  • Social Change in the 1960s
  • The Black Freedom Struggle Since 1945
  • Racializing Britain From World War II To The Present