Faculty

Sidbury, James
Professor
Graduate Adviser

Office: GAR 3.208
Office Hours: Spring 2009: M 3:00-5:00 PM and by appt.
Phone: 512-475-7225
sidbury@mail.utexas.edu

Education: PhD, 1991, Johns Hopkins University

Courses taught:
He teaches social and cultural history of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century America and early African American history.

Geographic Area(s) of Study: United States

Thematic Field(s): Atlantic History; Medieval and Early Modern Worlds; Race, Ethnicity and Nation

Recent Publications:
Professor Sidbury has just published, Becoming African in America: Race and Nation in the Early Black Atlantic which deals with conceptions of Africa in early (1760-1830) African-American culture (Oxford University Press, October 2007). Sidbury's early book Ploughshares Into Swords: Race, Rebellion and Identity in Gabriel's Virginia, 1730-1810 (1997), uses Gabriel's Conspiracy to analyze the emergence of a black Virginian sense of collective history and identity.