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Shawn Leigh Alexander received his PhD from the W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst in 2004. He is an Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies at the University of Kansas and the interim director of the Langston Hughes Center . His area of concentration is African American social and intellectual history of the 19th and 20th Centuries.
Professor Alexander recently published an anthology of T. Thomas Fortune's writings, T. Thomas Fortune, the Afro-American Agitator (University Press of Florida, 2008). He has also published work on early African American civil rights activity in the Great Plains Quarterly and in Radicalism in the South Since Reconstruction (Palgrave, 2006). Currenlty, he is completing a monograph on civil rights activity in the post- Reconstruction era (University of Pennsylvania Press).
Prior to joining the University of Kansas, Professor Alexander taught at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst College, Gettysburg College, and Yale University, where he was the first Cassius Marcellus Clay Fellow (2005&endash;2007) in the Department of History.
Website: http://www.people.ku.edu/~slalexan/
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