The School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies is proud to announce Professor Leslie M. Alexander as the fall 2019 Visiting Distinguished Scholar. She will be visiting Arizona State University the week of Nov. 17-22, 2019. Alexander will give a public talk, as well as workshops during her time on campus. Specific dates and times of these events will be announced at a later date.
“I am extremely honored and excited to be a visiting distinguished scholar at Arizona State University this year,” said Alexander. “It is a wonderful opportunity to engage in conversation with scholars I deeply respect, and to share my work with students and community members. I am deeply committed to the idea that education is a social justice issue, and I am proud to be able to interact with people throughout the greater ASU community and discuss the historical and contemporary issues that matter most.”
She is joining ASU from the department of history at the University of Oregon where she is an associate professor specializing in early African American and African Diaspora history.
In addition to her professorship, she is the president of the Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora and serves on the Advisory Councils for The Black Scholar, the International Journal for Africana Studies and the Harvey Goldberg Series for Understanding and Teaching History.
She is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships including the Ford Foundation Senior Fellowship, the coveted University Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching and the University Distinguished Diversity Enhancement Award at Ohio State University.
Author of, “African or American?: Black Identity and Political Activism in New York City, 1784-1861,” co-editor of, “’We Shall Independent Be:’ African American Place-Making and the Struggle to Claim Space in the United States,” and co-editor of the, “Encyclopedia of African American History,” her current research project, “The Cradle of Hope: African American Internationalism in the Nineteenth Century,” explores early African American foreign policy and Black internationalism in diasporic context. At its center are questions of Haiti’s diplomatic, sociopolitical and economic relationships with Atlantic nations in the nineteenth century and the ramifications of racialized foreign policy for today’s world.
Please check back for events with Alexander.