Beatrice Adams
Assistant Professor of History
Phone: 330-287-1915
Office: Kauke Hall 114
Degrees
B.A., Fisk University 2012
M.A., University of Chicago 2013
Ph.D., Rutgers University, New-Brunswick 2021
Beatrice J. Adams is an Assistant Professor of History at the College of 果酱视频.She received her Ph.D. in African American and African Diaspora History from Rutgers-New Brunswick in the spring of 2021. While at Rutgers, she served as a researcher for the Scarlet and Black Project and contributed to three volumes of the project鈥檚 award-winning book series.She also served as a researcher for the Rise Up Newark Digital History Project鈥攁 public history project that explores the dynamics of the Modern Black Freedom Movement in the urban North. Her book in progress, 鈥淲e Might as Well Fight at Home: African Americans Claiming the American South,鈥 examines the experiences of African Americans who remained in and returned to the American South during the Great Migration and the emergence of the New Great Migration. Her research has been supported by the Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis, the John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University, the Andrew Mellon Foundation, and the James Weldon Johnson Institute for the Study of Race and Difference at Emory University. She received her BA in History and Religion & Philosophical Studies from Fisk University in 2012 and her MA in Social Sciences from the University of Chicago in 2013.
- African American History
- Modern Black Freedom Movement
- History of Intersectionality
We Might as Well Fight at Home: African Americans Claiming the American South (Work-in-progress)
Those Who Stayed: Challenging Jim Crow and Championing Civil Rights in the South (肠辞-别诲颈迟别诲听with Sonjia Parker Redmond) (Under Review)
Book Chapters
鈥溾業 Hereby Bequeath鈥︹ Excavating the Enslaved from the Wills of the Early Leaders of Queen鈥檚听College鈥 and 鈥淔rom the Classroom to the American Colonization Society: Making Race at听搁耻迟驳别谤蝉,鈥 Scarlet and Black: Slavery and Dispossession in Rutgers History, eds. Marisa Fuentes听and Deborah Gray White, Rutgers University Press, 2016.
鈥淭he Rutgers Race Man: Early Black Students at Rutgers College,鈥 Scarlet and Black Volume II,听Constructing Race and Gender at Rutgers, 1865-1945, eds. Marisa Fuentes and Deborah Gray听White, Rutgers University Press, 2020.
鈥淎 Second Founding: The Black and Puerto Rican Student Revolution at Rutgers-Camden and听搁耻迟驳别谤蝉-狈别飞补谤办,鈥 Scarlet and Black Volume III, eds. Marisa Fuentes and Deborah Gray White,听Rutgers University Press, Rutgers University Press, 2021.
Digital Scholarship
鈥淐hapter Four: The Gibson Years,鈥 The North: Newark, https://riseupnewark.com/.
https://scarletandblack.rutgers.edu/archive/exhibits/show/alumni-gallery/introduction.
Post-Doctoral Fellow, James Weldon Johnson Institute for the Study of Race and Difference, 2022-2023
听Mellon Graduate Fellowships in the Humanities, Dissertation Completion Fellowship, 2020-2021
听The Ford Foundation Minority Dissertation Fellowship, Alternate, 2019-2020
听Neal Ira Rosenthal History Travel Award, Rutgers University, 2017-2018
Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis, Graduate Fellow, Black Bodies, 2017-2018
John Hope Franklin Center for Documentary Studies, Research Fellow, Duke University, 2016-2017