Beverly G. Bond

Associate Professor

Dunavant University Professor

Advisor for the College of Arts and Sciences interdisciplinary African and African-American Studies program (awarded the Dean’s Award for Advising Excellence for 2012)

Office: 107 Mitchell
Telephone: 901.678.3376
Fax: 901.678.2720
E-mail: bgbond@memphis.edu
Education: Ph.D., History, The University of Memphis, 1996

Fields of Interest

Nineteenth-century African-American history; nineteenth-century African-American Women; Memphis History. I am particularly interested in the ways in which 19th-century African-American women negotiated the boundaries of race, class, and gender in the urban South. My research focuses on black women in Memphis from the early 1800s to the beginning of the twentieth century.

Courses taught

African-American History; African-American Women’s History; African-American Intellectual History; Parallel Lives: Black and White Women in American History; US Since 1877; Capstone Course in African and African-American Studies

Representative publications

Books

• Memphis in Black and White, co-authored with Janann Sherman (Arcadia Publishing, 2003)
• Images of America: Beale Street, co-authored with Janann Sherman (Arcadia Publishing, 2006)
• Tennessee Women: Their Histories, Their Lives, Vol. 1, with Sarah Wilkerson Freeman (University of Florida Press, 2009)

Book chapters and journal articles

• “‘The Extent of the Law’: Free Women of Color in Antebellum Memphis, Tennessee,” in Negotiating the Boundaries of Southern Womanhood: Dealing With The Powers That Be (University of Missouri Press)
• “‘Every Duty Incumbent Upon Them’: African-American Women in Nineteenth Century Memphis,” in Trial and Triumph: Readings in Tennessee’s African-American Past (University of Tennessee Press)
• “Sarah Roberta Church: Race and the Republican Party in the 1950s,” in The Human Tradition: Portraits of African-American Life Since 1865 (Scholarly Resources)

Encyclopedia articles

• Organizing Black America: An Encyclopedia of African-American Associations (“Memphis Lyceum” and “Memphis: Civic, Literary, and Mutual Aid Associations”)
• The Family in America: An Encyclopedia (“African-American families,” “Freedmen’s Families,” and “Interracial families”)
• The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, Gender Volume (“Mary Church Terrell” and “The National Association of Colored Women”)

Current projects

• Tennessee Women: Their Histories, Their Lives, Vol. 2 (for University of Georgia Press)
• History of the University of Memphis, 1912-2012 (for Arcadia Publications)
• Biography of Reverend L.O. Taylor
• Claiming My Self: African American women in Memphis, Tennessee, 1820s-early 1900s (University of Illinois Press)