| Associate professor of Africana Studies. Specialist on African Americans and film, the American West, the Civil War and general African American history and culture. Also, the African American town of Dearfield, Colo., and Black eunuchs of the Ottoman Empire. Author of “Afroamerican History, Blacks in the American West” and Beyond: America, Canada and Mexico” (bibliography) and “History of Blacks in Canada” (bibliography). Member and treasurer of the National Association for Ethnic Studies and member plus chair of the African and African American section of the Western Social Science Association. Associate editor of the WSSA’s Social Science Journal. |