Hannah Rosen, PhD

Assistant Research Scientist, IRWG
Director, IRWG Program Area in Gender, Race, and History

G251 Lane Hall
204 S. State Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1290

Telephone: 734-615-8820
Fax: 734-764-9533

hrosen@umich.edu

Research Interests

Dr. Rosen is a historian whose research and teaching have focused on the social and cultural history of the 19th-century United States, and particularly on the intersection of race and gender in histories of slavery, emancipation, and postemancipation society. Her current research treats African American experiences surrounding death and mourning during and after the Civil War and the increasing segregation of southern cemeteries in the postemancipation period. In this project, she also explores historical memory and commemoration through black women's efforts to reclaim and restore African American burial sites.

Publications

• Terror in the Heart of Freedom: Citizenship, Sexual Violence, and the Meaning of Race in the Postemancipation South (University of North Carolina Press, February 2009)

  Recipient of:

  • Berkshires Conference First Book Prize, 2009
  • Avery O. Craven Award, Organization of American Historians, 2010
  • Willie Lee Rose Prize, Southern Association of Women's Historians, 2010

• "The Rhetoric of Miscegenation and the Reconstruction of Race: Debating Marriage, Sex, and Citizenship in Postemancipation Arkansas," in Gender and Slave Emancipation in the Atlantic World, ed. Pamela Scully and Diana Paton (Durham: Duke University Press, 2005), 289-309.

• "'Not That Sort of Women': Race, Gender, and Sexual Violence During the Memphis Riot of 1866," in Sex, Love, Race: Crossing Boundaries in North American History, ed. Martha Hodes (New York: New York University Press, 1999), 267-93; reprinted in Women, Families, and Communities: Readings in American History, volume 2, ed. Nancy A. Hewitt and Kirsten Delegard (New York: Pearson Longman, second edition, 2008), 10-30.

Recent Presentations

• "Terror in the Heart of Freedom: African American Women's Testimony about Sexual Violence in the Postemancipation South," George Tindall Lecture, Furman University, Greenville, South Carolina, November 30, 2010.

• "Black Reconstruction in America After 75 Years: A Retrospective," at "W.E.B. Dubois's Black Reconstruction in America 75th Anniversary Symposium," Duke University, November 11, 2010.

• "The Strange Career of 'Social Equality': Race, Space, and Segregated Cemeteries in Postemancipation Arkansas," invited paper presentation at the Workshop on Nineteenth-Century U.S. History, Institute for Global History, Georgetown University, September 27, 2010.

Education

PhD, University of Chicago, Department of History, December, 1999.
MA, University of Chicago, Department of History, June, 1989.
BA, Cornell University, College of Arts & Sciences, May, 1985.

Academic Employment

Assistant Research Scientist and Director, Program Area in Gender, Race, and History, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, University of Michigan, June, 2009–present.

Assistant Professor, Program in American Culture and Women's Studies Program, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, July, 2000–May, 2009.

Lecturer, Department of History, Princeton University, January–May, 2000.

Courses Taught

Undergraduate

• The Era of the Civil War and Reconstruction
• Gender, Slavery, and Emancipation
• American Citizenship: History and Theory
• History of Sexuality
• Gender in America
• Feminist Theory
• Junior Honors Writing Seminar

Graduate

• Race: Historical and Theoretical Approaches
• Histories of Racial Formation in the Americas
• Race, Gender, and Citizenship in the 19th-Century US
• Feminist Theory