Beverly G. Bond

Associate Professor of History; Director of the College of Arts and Sciences interdisciplinary African and African-American Studies program

107 Mitchell Hall, University of Memphis, 38152

Phone:   901.678.3376    Fax:  901.678.2720 bgbond@memphis.edu

Ph.D., History, The University of Memphis, 1996

Fields of Interest

Nineteenth-century African-American history; nineteenth-century African-American Women; Memphis History. I am particularly interested in the ways in which nineteenth-century African-American women negotiated the boundaries of race, class and gender in the urban South. My research focuses on black women in Memphis from the early 1800s to the beginning of the twentieth century.

Courses taught

African-American History; African-American Women's History; African-American Intellectual History; Parallel Lives: Black and White Women In American History; US Since 1877; Capstone Course in African and African-American Studies -- The Diaspora

Representative publications

In addition to encyclopedia articles on civic and social organizations in nineteenth-century Memphis (for "Organizing Black America: An Encyclopedia of African-American Associations", Fitzroy Dearborn Publications), "African-American families, Freedmen's families and Interracial families" (for The Family in America: An Encyclopedia, ABC-Clio), my publications include "'The Extent of the Law': Free Women of Color in Antebellum Memphis, Tennessee," in Negotiating the Boundaries of Southern Womanhood: Dealing With The Powers That Be (University of Missouri Press), "'Every Duty Incumbent Upon Them': African-American Women in Nineteenth Century Memphis" in Trial and Triumph: Readings in Tennessee's African-American Past (University of Tennessee Press) and "Sarah Roberta Church: Race and the Republican Party in the 1950s" in The Human Tradition: Portraits of African-American Life Since 1865 (Scholarly Resources). My book Memphis in Black and White (co-authored with Dr. Sherman) was published in October 2003 and a second book, Troublesome Times: African-American Women in Memphis, Tennessee, 1820-1905, is under contract with the University of Illinois Press. I am also working on a collection of essays, Tennessee Women, with Dr. Sarah Wilkerson Freeman (Arkansas State University, Jonesboro).