Dr. Talitha Leflouria

Biography

Talitha LeFlouria is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Texas at Austin, where she holds the prestigious Mastin Gentry White Professorship in Southern History. She received her Ph.D. in History from Howard University. Her research primarily focuses on the intersection of race, gender, and labor, particularly as it pertains to black women in the post-Civil War era. LeFlouria is the author of 'Chained Silence: Black Women, Convict Labor, and the New South' (UNC, 2015), which received multiple awards including the Darlene Clark Hine Award from the Organization of American Historians and the Philip Taft Labor History Award. She is currently completing a single-authored book titled 'Searching Jane Crow: Black Women and Mass Incarceration in America from Auction Block to Cell Block,' supported by a Carnegie Corporation Andrew Carnegie Fellowship. In addition to academic publications, she contributes to popular media outlets such as The Atlantic and The Washington Post.

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