Faculty

Walker, Juliet E. K.
Professor

Office: GAR 2.136
Office Hours: Spring 2009: TTH 12:30-2:00 PM, W by appt. (11:00 AM-2:00 PM)
Phone: 512-471-5581
jekwalker@mail.utexas.edu

Education: PhD, 1976, University of Chicago

Research interests:
Presently, she is engaged in a book-length project, Oprah Winfrey: An American Entrepreneur for the Harvard Business School Press.

Courses taught:
Professor Walker's teaching fields include African American history, Antebellum Slavery, Black Business History and Political Economy, Black Intellectual history and African American Women's history.

Geographic Area(s) of Study: United States

Thematic Field(s): Business and Economic History; Diaspora and Migration; Empire and Globalization; Race, Ethnicity and Nation

Recent Publications:
Professor Walker's major publications are the award-winning The History of Black Business in America: Capitalism, Race, Entrepreneurship (1998), Free Frank: A Black Pioneer on the Antebellum Frontier (1983). She is also the editor of the Encyclopedia of African American Business History (1999) and the forthcoming The Oprah Winfrey Enterprise: Race, Culture and the Media (2002) and is Senior Consulting Editor on "Commerce and Industry" for the forthcoming Encyclopedia of the Midwest.