Committee Chair: Dr. Susan Sleeper-Smith
Fields: United States, African American, American Indian, Race and Ethnicity
Dissertation Title: ”Under One Big Tent: Native Americans and African Americans in the Circus World of Nineteenth-Century America”
I study comparative Native American and African American history in the 18th through the early 20th centuries. In my dissertation, I explore American Indian and African American involvement in circuses and other traveling shows to understand race, community building and labor in the Old Northwest and entertainment-based communities of the Midwest.
Dissertation Committee: Dr. Susan Sleeper-Smith, Dr. Thomas Summerhill, Dr. David Bailey; Dr. Leslie Moch, Dr. Edward Watts, Dr. Tiya Miles
