Associate Professor: Ph.D., U.S. History, Indiana University, Bloomington, June 1997, M.A., U.S. History, Indiana University, 1989, B.A., Anthropology/European History, Richmond College (CUNY) 1974. Research Interests: African-American history, black women, African diaspora in the Americas. Publications: Catherine Higgs, Barbara A. Moss and Earline Rae Ferguson, eds. Stepping Forward: Black Women in Africa and the Americas (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2002). A Community Affair: Black Club Women's Work in Indianapolis, 1880-1930 (in revision, University of Illinois Press).
