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name: Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham
about: Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Ph.D. (American History, University of Rochester, 1984; M.A., History, Howard University, 1974; B.A., History, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1969), is the Victor S. Thomas Professor of History and of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. She is currently chair of the Department of African and African American Studies and has held this position since 2006. Prior to Harvard, she taught on the full-time faculties of Dartmouth, the University of Maryland, and the University of Pennsylvania. In addition, she was a Visiting Professor at Princeton University and New York University.Professor Higginbotham's writings span diverse fields—African American religious history, women's history, civil Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Ph.D. (American History, University of Rochester, 1984; M.A., History, Howard University, 1974; B.A., History, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1969), is the Victor S. Thomas Professor of History and of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. She is currently chair of the Department of African and African American Studies and has held this position since 2006. Prior to Harvard, she taught on the full-time faculties of Dartmouth, the University of Maryland, and the University of Pennsylvania. In addition, she was a Visiting Professor at Princeton University and New York University.Professor Higginbotham's writings span diverse fields—African American religious history, women's history, civil rights, constructions of racial and gender identity, electoral politics, and the intersection of theory and history.In April 2003 she was chosen by Harvard University to be a Walter Channing Cabot Fellow in recognition of her achievements and scholarly eminence in the field of history. The Association for the Study of African American Life and History awarded her the Carter G. Woodson Scholars Medallion in October 2008, and the Urban League awarded her the Legend Award in August 2008. ...more