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WSRP 25th Anniversary Conference Speakers EVELYN BROOKS HIGGINBOTHAM Professor Higginbotham's research and writing focus primarily on African American women in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Professor Higginbotham is the author of Righteous Discontent: The Women's Movement in the Black Baptist Church, 1880–1920 (Harvard University Press, 1993), which has won book prizes from the American Historical Association, the American Academy of Religion, the Association of Black Women Historians, and the Association for Research on Non-Profit and Voluntary Organizations. She co-edited History and Theory: Feminist Research, Debates and Contestations (1997), and was co-editor with Darlene Clark Hine and Leon Litwack of the Harvard Guide to African American History, published by Harvard University Press in 2001. Her articles on African American women's history cover such diverse themes as constructions of racial and gender identity, electoral politics, religion, and the intersection of theory and history. Her article "African-American Women's History and the Metalanguage of Race," Signs (Winter 1992), won the Best Article prize of the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians in 1993. A more recent article, "Rethinking Vernacular Culture: Black Religion and Race Records in the 1920s and 1930s," appeared in the anthology The House that Race Built (1997), edited by Wahneena Lubiano. She is also completing a study for the Lily Endowment on the history of its grant-making to African American religious institutions and programs. Her current research and writing include a biography of Katherine Johnson, the first field worker for the NAACP, and a second book on racial construction of citizenship. Professor Higginbotham was a WSRP Research Associate in 1980-81.
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