Please join us for this public talk by Distinguished Visiting Scholar Dr. Leslie Alexander.
This event will be livestreamed.
Professor Leslie M. Alexander is a Visiting Distinguished Scholar in Arizona State University’s School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies. She is an award-winning scholar of eighteenth and nineteenth-century black culture and consciousness, politics and internationalism. She is an associate professor at the University of Oregon and president of the Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora (ASWAD).
She is the author of "African or American?: Black Identity and Political Activism in New York City, 1784-1861" (2008), co-editor of “We Shall Independent Be:” African American Place-Making and the Struggle to Claim Space in the United States" (2008) and co-editor of the "Encyclopedia of African American History" (3 vols, 2010). Her current research project, “The Cradle of Hope: African American Internationalism in the Nineteenth Century,” explores early African American foreign policy and black internationalism in diasporic context. At its center are questions of Haiti’s diplomatic, sociopolitical and economic relationships with Atlantic nations in the nineteenth century and the ramifications of racialized foreign policy for today’s world.
