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Core Faculty: Chana Kai Lee
Dr. Chana Kai Lee, Associate Professor of History and Women's Studies, received her doctorate from UCLA in 1993 and has taught at the University of Florida and Indiana University, Bloomington. Dr. Lee teaches “Introduction to Women's Studies” and courses in black feminism and African American women's history (nineteenth and twentieth centuries). She 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. She served as a senior editor for The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History (forthcoming, December 2007). Since 1998 she has been an editorial consultant for the journal Feminist Studies. In 2002 she was invited to join the Organization of American Historians’ Distinguished Lectureship Program, which includes a roster of outstanding speakers who have made major contributions to the study of American history. Her Rosa Parks: A Movement, A Life will appear in Longman’s Library of American Biography series in 2008. Mailing Address: |
