Le'Trice D. Donaldson PhD

Roles:
Author, Section Editor

Editorial groups:
Advisory Committee

Affiliation:
History, Auburn University

Country:
United States

Biography

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Le’Trice D. Donaldson is assistant professor of history at Auburn University. Prior to this appointment, she was Assistant Professor of African American and U.S. History at the Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. She also has taught at The University of Wisconsin-Stout, The University of Mississippi, The University of Memphis, Medgar Evers College, Marist College and City University of New York–York College.

Dr. Donaldson earned her Ph.D from the University of Memphis, and her B.A. and M.A. from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville.  

She specializes in African American military and gender history during the Post-Civil War era through World War I. The primary focus of Dr. Donaldson's work centers on reshaping the narrative of the Black military experience on how African American men utilized military service for community uplift and community defense. She is also interested in race and religion in the Caribbean and Latin America, U.S. intelligence history, and the Black Atlantic World experience.  

Dr. Donaldson is co-editor for the UVA Press book series, The Black Soldier in War and Society: New Narratives and Critical Perspectives. She is the author of A Voyage Through the African American Experience, a textbook for the introduction to African American Studies. Her monograph, Duty Beyond the Battlefield: African American Soldiers Fight for Racial Uplift, Citizenship, and Manhood, 1870-1920, was published in February 2020.