African American Studies--Scholars Voices Series--When and Where I Enter: Selected Writings of Elsa Barkley Brown

Dr. Elsa Barkley Brown teaches in the Departments of History and Women’s Studies at the University of Maryland College Park. She is the co-editor of the 2-volume Black Women in U.S. History: An Historical Encyclopedia and of a 2-volume textbook, Major Problems in African American History. Her articles on African American women’s history have been awarded the A. Elizabeth Taylor Prize for best article in southern women’s history, the Letitia Brown Memorial Publication Prize for best article in black women’s history, the Martin Luther King Jr. Prize for best article in African American history, and the Anna Julia Cooper Prize for distinguished scholarship in black women’s studies. She has held fellowships from the W.E.B. DuBois Institute, Harvard University, and The American Philosophical Society. A past president of the Southern Association for Women Historians, Professor Barkley Brown currently serves on the Editorial Board of Women and U.S. Social Movements, 1600-2000.

http://wmst.umd.edu/people/core-faculty/elsa-barkley-brown

Selected Publications

• 2008 “Stephanie E. Pogue and the Artist’s Veil,” in Arabesque (David C. Driskell Gallery, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, 2008)
• 2008 “Bodies of History,” in Deborah Gray White, ed., Telling Histories (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008), 215-226
• 2003 “Memory Work:  Quilts in Southern African-American History,” in African-American Quilts: 60 Historic Textiles from the Farmer-James Collection ca. 1860-1947 (Four Sisters Gallery, North Carolina Wesleyan College, Rocky Mount, North Carolina, 2003)
• 2000 Major Problems in African American History, vol. 1: From Slavery to Freedom; vol. 2: From Freedom to “Freedom Now”.  Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, September 2000. (co-editor with Thomas C. Holt)
• 1997 “To Catch the Vision of Freedom: Reconstructing Southern Black Women’s Political History, 1865-1880” in Ann Gordon, Bettye Collier-Thomas, John H. Bracey, Arlene Avakian, Joyce Berkman, eds., African American Women and the Vote, 1837-1960 (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1997), 66-99
• 1995 “Imaging Lynching:  African American Women, Communities of Struggle, and Collective Memory,” in African American Women Speak Out On Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas, ed. Geneva Smitherman (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1995), 100-124
• 1995 (with Gregg D. Kimball), “Mapping the Terrain of Black Richmond,” Journal of Urban History, 21, 3 (March 1995), 295-346
• 1994 “Negotiating and Transforming the Public Sphere:  African American Political Life in the Transition from Slavery to Freedom,” Public Culture, 7, 1 (Fall 1994), 107-146
• 1993 Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia, 2 volumes, Brooklyn: Carlson Publishing; paperback edition: Bloomington, Indiana University, 1995.  (Associate Editor; Darlene Clark Hine, Editor)
• 1989 “Womanist Consciousness: Maggie Lena Walker and the Independent Order of Saint Luke,” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 14, 3 (Spring 1989), 610-633