Faculty Guide

Title

Allen-Berenson Fellow in African & Afro-American Studies and Women's & Gender Studies

African and Afro-American Studies
Women's and Gender Studies

Expertise

Political and intellectual history of the United States in the twentieth century, with a particular interest in African American and women's history, the histories of gender and sexuality, and the history of the United States in the world.

Profile

Grace V. Leslie received her PhD from Yale University for her dissertation, "United for a Better World: Internationalism in the U.S. Women's Movement, 1939-1964." Her teaching and research interests include U.S. history since the Civil War, African American history and the history of race in America; U.S. women’s history and the history of gender and sexuality in the United States; the history of social movements in the United States; and American internationalism, including the histories of diplomacy, transnational movements, and international organizations. She taught at San Francisco State University before arriving at Brandeis.

Awards and Honors

John Hay Whitney Fellow Yale University (2010)

Annie G. K. Garland Fellowship, Yale University (2009)

Alice Stone Blackwell Dissertation Grant, Schlesinger Library (2008)

Emory University Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Library Research Fellowship (2008)

John F. Enders Fellowships & Research Grant, (2008)

Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College Travel-to-Collection Grant (2008)

Yale International Security Studies Smith Richardson Fellowship (2008)

Yale University Prize Teaching Award and Fellowship (2008)

Courses Taught

AAAS	156a	The Civil Rights Movement
WMGS	105b	Feminist Theories in Historical and Cross-Cultural Perspective
WMGS	130b	History of Sexuality in the United States