African American, U.S. Women's, 20th Century U.S.Associate Professor Ph.D., UCLA, 1993 Office: 130 LeConte Office Hours: T 1:00-2:30By appt. Phone: (706) 542-2541 chanakai@uga.edu Lee is author of For Freedom's Sake: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer (Illinois, 1999), which won the Willie Lee Rose Prize awarded by the Southern Association of Women Historians and the Letitia Woods Brown Memorial Book Prize awarded by the Association of Black Women Historians. Recently completed work includes "Toward a History of African American Women, Trauma and Violence: Some Notes on Lethal Intimacy and Black Woman Subjectivity," which will appear in Silences Broken: New Directions in African American Gender History, edited by Nancy Bercaw and Angela Hornsby, (forthcoming). Her Rosa Parks: A Movement, A Life will appear in Longman's Library of American Biography series in 2008. |