Nikki Brown

Assistant Professor and Undergraduate Studies Coordinator

Contact Information

Office Hours: Tuesday & Thusrday:  3:00-4:00; Wednesday: 2:00-4:00 & by appointment
Office Location: 109 Liberal Arts Building
Phone: (504) 280-6135
Email Address: nlbrown2@uno.edu

Educational Background

Oberlin College, BA in History (1993); Yale University, PH.D. in History (2001)

Research Interests

The American history survey, African American, U.S. Women, African American Women, American intellectual, African American intellectual, and Black Comedy as Social Commentary.

Background

Nikki Brown’s first book, Private Politics and Public Voices: African American Women’s Activism from World War I to the New Deal, won the 2007 Letitia Woods Brown Memorial Book Prize for the best book in African American women’s history.   In fall 2008, Greenwood Press will publish the Encyclopedia of Jim Crow, a three volume reference work co-edited by Brown and Barry Stentiford of Grambling State University.  Brown is currently working on book reviews for the Journal of American History and the Journal of Southern History.  Her next work concentrates on the past, present, and future role of historically black colleges and universities in African American education.

Click on the following link for Private Politics and Public Voices
http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=40727

Click on the following link for the Encyclopedia of Jim Crow
http://www.greenwood.com/catalog/GR4181.aspx

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