April 4

"Race v. Racism: What's in a Word?"

Professor Barbara Fields
Columbia University
7pm, Monday, 23 April 2007
134 Dobo Hall

Barbara J. Fields is a Professor of History at Columbia University, specializing in the history of the American South. She earned her bachelors degree from Harvard University, and her M. Phil. and Ph.D. from Yale University, where she studied under C. Vann Woodward. She was visiting editor at the Freedmen and Southern Society Project at the University of Maryland, College Park. Her publications include Slavery and Freedom on the Middle Ground: Maryland during the Nineteenth Century (Yale University Press), which won the John H. Dunning Prize of the American Historical Association, and co-authored with members on the Freedmen and Southern Society Project, The Destruction of Slavery (Cambridge University Press, 1985), which won the Founders Prize of the Confederate Memorial Literary Society and the Thomas Jefferson Prize of the Society for the History of the Federal Government; Slaves No More: Three Essays on the Emancipation and the Civil War (Cambridge University Press, 1992); and Free At Last: A Documentary History of Slavery, Emancipation, and the Civil War (The New Press, 1992), to which the Lincoln and Soldiers Institute at Gettysburg College was awarded its Lincoln Prize in 1994. Among her other awards and fellowships are a Michael Clark Rockefeller Fellowship at Harvard University, the George Washington Egleston Prize at Yale University, and Woodrow Wilson Fellowship. She was a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur fellow from 1992-1997. She was a featured commentator in the PBS documentary, "The Civil War" and delivered the annual W.E.B. DuBois lecture series at Harvard University in 1995.