Françoise N. Hamlin PhD

Roles:
Author, Editor

Editorial groups:
Editor in Chief

Affiliation:
Africana Studies & History, Brown University

Country:
United States

Biography

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Françoise Hamlin is an Associate Professor of Africana Studies and History at Brown University. She authored the multiple award-winning Crossroads at Clarksdale: The Black Freedom Struggle in the Mississippi Delta after World War II (UNC Press, 2012). These Truly Are The Brave: An Anthology of African American Writings on Citizenship and War, a co-edited anthology with A Yęmisi Jimoh (University of Florida Press, 2015), was a finalist for the QBR 2016 Wheatley Book Award in Nonfiction. In 2023, with the University Press of Mississippi, she republished the previously self-published 1975 autobiography of Mississippi activist, Vera Pigee, The Struggle of Struggles, and added a full introduction, annotation, and a timeline. It was named as one of the Wall Street Journal's 2024 "Five Best" books about women in the civil rights movement. Dr. Hamlin's last publication, From Rights To Lives: The Evolution of the Black Freedom Struggle, is a co-edited volume with Charles W. McKinney Jr. (Vanderbilt University Press, March 2024).

Dr. Hamlin’s general research interests include U.S. history, African American history, Black military histories, Black women’s histories, autobiographies, research methods (especially oral history), and ethics of care. She has won major mentoring and teaching awards at Brown University. Dr. Hamlin was named an Andrew Carnegie Foundation Fellow in 2021.