A pre-circulated paper workshop by Alaina Roberts. Please email kimberlym@uchicago.edu to receive the paper in advance of the event.
Thursday, May 4th, 4:00-5:30, with reception to follow, Saieh Hall Room 103, 5727 S University Ave
Alaina E. Roberts is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Pittsburgh, where she studies the intersection of Black and Native American life from the Civil War to the modern day. Dr. Roberts is the author of I’ve Been Here All the While: Black Freedom on Native Land, which was awarded the Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize and the Western History Association’s John C. Ewers Award and W. Turrentine Jackson Book Prize. I’ve Been Here All the While was also a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Dr. Roberts has written multiple academic essays as well as op-eds and profiles for the Washington Post, TIME magazine, and High Country News.