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Shirley Thompson, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of American Studies
College of Liberal Arts

CONTACT INFORMATION
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E-mail: s.thompson@mail.utexas.edu

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http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/ams/faculty/st1992


BIOGRAPHY

Professor Thompson is Associate Professor of American Studies. She currently serves as the American Studies Graduate Advisor and the Associate Director of the John L. Warfield Center for African and African American Studies. She received her Ph.D. in the History of American Civilization (2001) and her A.M. in History (2000) from Harvard University. She received her A.B. degree in History (1992) from Harvard College.
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David Ochsner
512-475-9712
dochsner@austin.utexas.edu

EXPERTISE
African American and African Diaspora Studies; Nineteenth Century US Cultural History; Law and Literature; Slavery and Post-Emancipation Cultures; Cultural Memory

 




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