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Lavonne Jackson Leslie Ph.D.
Dr. LaVonne Jackson Leslie has a Ph.D. in United States History and African History from Howard University, Master of Arts degree in African-American Studies/ U.S. History from Clark-Atlanta Univer...lihat lebih banyakDr. LaVonne Jackson Leslie has a Ph.D. in United States History and African History from Howard University, Master of Arts degree in African-American Studies/ U.S. History from Clark-Atlanta University, and a Bachelors of Arts in Political Science from the University of Texas at Arlington. Dr. Leslie specializes in 19thcentury history with emphasis on Slavery, the Civil War and the Reconstruction Era, as well as West African history.
She has worked as a historian for the U.S. Department of Interior, National Register of Historic Places where she co-edited a book entitled, African-American Historic Places in the National Register. She has other significant works to her credit including a biography of Mother Hale and Betty Shabazz in Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia; essay on Betty Bahiyah Hajjj Shabazz in Black Women in America, volume 3, second edition; as contributor, The Encyclopedia of Malcolm X ; and Oley Township Historic District, Pennsylvania in Teaching with Historic Places:Heritage Education Resources Exchange. She has written four books, Introduction to Afro-American Studies I, Introduction to Afro-American Studies I, volume I, Introduction to Afro-American Studies II-From Reconstruction Era to Twentieth Century, and Afro-American Studies E-Text. She has also written articles on African women in Sub-Sahara and North Africa with emphasis on education and gender.
Dr. Leslie has presented many scholarly papers at historical conferences focusing on African-Americans from slavery to freedom, and Africans in the Diaspora. She has received awards and letters of recommendations from community and school leaders for her lectures on African American culture and history.
Dr. Leslie has many travels to her credit. She has conducted research on women in West African society with emphasis on Senegal and the Gambia, due to a West African Research Fellowship; completed a study on the cultural history of Morocco andTunisia in North Africa, as a Fulbright Research Scholar; traveled to Taipei, Taiwan and Osaki, Japan to present a scholarly paper; participated in scholarly conferences in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic; Lima, Peru; Belize, Central America; London, England; Cape Coast, Ghana, and most recently, Salvador Bahia, Brazil.
She is a member of the Association for Third World Studies, West African Research Association, the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs, Inc.,; Tuesday Evening Club of Social Workers, Inc.,; Washington and Vicinity Federation of Women's Clubs, Inc.; board member of Martin Luther King Jr. Community Center, Northeastern Federation of Women and Youth Clubs, Inc.; Washington DC
Pan-Hellenic Council; Omicron Phi Zeta Sorority; and former President of Ward 6 Washington DC Office on Aging Mini-Commission.
Dr. Leslie is currently a tenured Professor at Howard Universitylihat lebih sedikit
Buku oleh Lavonne Jackson Leslie Ph.D.
Freedom After Slavery: The Black Experience And the Freedmen’S Bureau in Reconstruction Texas