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LaShawn D. Harris

Associate Professor

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Biography

LaShawn Harris is an Associate Professor of History at Michigan State University and former Managing and Book Review Editor for the Journal of African American History (JAAH). She is a historian of U. S. history with a focus on African American, Black Women’s, and urban histories. Harris’s scholarly essays have appeared in Journal of Social History, Journal of Urban History, andSOULS: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society. Her first monograph Sex Workers, Psychics, and Numbe

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Publications

“My Mother was My Everything’: Police Murder, Family Loss & Deferred Dreams,” Langston Hughes Review, Fall 2022

“Recovering the Lives of City Women,” Journal of African American History, Vol. 106, no 1.(Winter 2021): 109-113

“#SayHerName: Black Women, State Sanctioned Violence & Resistance,” The American Historian (Organization of American Historian (OAH) Magazine), September 2020: 30-38

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