Tuesday, April 9, 3:30-5:30pm, Derby Hall [Rm. 1039], 154 N. Oval Mall

Speaker

Le’Trice Donaldson is the Paul R. and Mary Haas Distinguished Professor of History at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. Dr. Donaldson specializes in the late nineteenth and early twentieth-century African American military history, the Gilded Age, WWI, and Gender History. She works at the intersection of race, gender, military service, and the long civil rights movement. She is the author of Duty Beyond the Battlefield: African American Soldiers Fight for Racial Uplift, Citizenship, and Manhood, 1870-1920 and A Voyage Through the African American Experience. She is also an editor for a new book series, The Black Soldier in War and Society: New Narratives and Critical Perspectives with the University of Virginia Press. Her current book projects are Remember Me: The Life of Eugene Bullard, the first African American fighter pilot and Race Prophets: A History of the Army’s Black Chaplains.

Professor Donaldson is the founder and president of the Society for Black Military Studies, currently serves on the executive board of the Association of Black Women Historians and is a W.E.B. Du Bois Research Fellow with the University of Mass-Amherst Du Bois Center, and the coordinator for the Black Studies Minor program. Dr. Donaldson earned her Ph.D. in African American History from the University of Memphis and her B.A. and M.A. from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville.

A reception will run from 3:30pm to 4pm; the talk will begin at 4pm.

Hosted by Mershon Center for International Security Studies.