Tamika Richeson
Fields & Specialties
19th Century U.S. Social and Cultural History, African American History, Women's History and Criminal JusticeDISSERTATION TITLE
"Black Sass: A Social and Cultural Examination of Black Female Criminality in Civil War Era Washington, D.C., 1850-1880"
EDUCATION
PhD in History, University of Virginia (in progress)
M.A. in History, University of Virginia (2012)
M.A. in African American Studies, Columbia University (2008)
B.A. in African American Studies and History, Miami University, Ohio (2007)
PUBLICATIONS
Book Review, Word, Like Fire: Maria Stewart, The Bible & The Rights of African Americans. by Valerie C. Cooper, Journal of African American History (forthcoming)
"From Ona Judge to Michelle Obama: The Historic Thread of Black Women in the White House," Essays in History, 2011
Book Review, Telling Histories: Black Women Historians in the Ivory Tower, ed. Deborah Gray White, SOULS: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture and Society, Volume 11, Issue 2, 2009
AWARDS
UVa Doctoral Fellowship in the Digital Humanities
Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences Summer Research Fellowship Award
PROFESSIONAL
Panelist, "A New Dawn of Freedom: Interrogating the Politics of Emancipation in A Sesquicentennial Moment" Annual Meeting of the National Council of Black Studies (Spring 2013)
Co-Chair, "Historicizing the Present," Corcoran Graduate History Conference (Spring 2013)
Presenter, "Behind the Seams: Elizabeth Keckly's Interwoven Stitches Across Race, Class, and Gender " Annual Meeting for the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (Fall 2012)
