Adele Logan Alexander
Title — Adjunct Professor of History
Address — 801 22nd St. NW #303, Washington, D.C. 20052
Office — 801 22nd St. NW #303
Phone — (202) 994-6528
E-mail — alalex@gwu.edu
Areas of Expertise —
Adele L. Alexander's research and teaching incorporates the black Atlantic world, African American history, family history, gender issues, military and social history. Her first book examined the lives and significance of non-enslaved women of color in the rural antebellum South. Her second explored the Americanization and evolving citizenship of an African (and Anglo-) American family in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In 2003 the African American Historical and Genealogical Society recognized her contributions to the study of family history with an award for Outstanding Lifetime Contribution. (Complete C.V.)
Education
Ph.D., Howard University, 1994.
Publications
Homelands and Waterways: The American Journey of the Bond Family, 1846-1926. New York: Pantheon, 1999.
Winner for the top non-fiction prize of the Black Caucus of the American Library Association.
Appeared on several best book lists for 1999.
Ambiguous Lives: Free Women of Color in Rural Georgia, 1789-1879. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1991.
Winner, Gustavus Myers award as one of the year's outstanding books promoting racial understanding.
Classes Taught
Hist 101: The Civil Rights and Black Power Movements
Hist 101: American Slavery
Hist 173: African-American History
Hist 185: Black Women in U.S. History