Brenda Elaine Stevenson | |
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Born | Portsmouth, Virginia, U.S. |
Alma mater | University of Virginia; Yale University |
Occupation | Historian |
Known for | Hillary Rodham Clinton Chair of Women's History at St John's College, Oxford |
Notable work | Life in Black and White: Family and Community in the Slave South |
Spouse | James H. Cones III |
Children | 1 |
Parent(s) | James William and Emma Gerald Stevenson |
Brenda Elaine Stevenson is an American historian specializing in the history of the Southern United States and African-American history, particularly slavery, gender, race and race riots. She is Professor and Nickoll Family Endowed Chair in History and Professor in African-American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).[1] As of Autumn 2021, she was appointed inaugural Hillary Rodham Clinton Chair of Women's History at St John's College, University of Oxford.[2]