SHARONY GREEN
Department of History, University of Alabama, PO Box 870212
Tuscaloosa, AL 35404
EDUCATION
PhD, History, 2013, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Dissertation Adviser: David Roediger. Other committee members: Bruce Levine, Clarence Lang and Augusto Espiritu. Also studied with Siobhan Somerville
Master of Arts in History, University of Chicago, 2008
Master of Arts in Dance and Related Studies (U.S. History, Theatre, Film), University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2005
Bachelor of Science in Broadcast Journalism and Political Science, University of Miami, Miami, FL, 1989
RESEARCH INTERESTS
U.S. History, Urban History, Gender, Transnationalism
ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS
Forthcoming Space and the U: Miami Hurricanes and the Southland, under peer review
Forthcoming “Dolen Perkins-Valdez,” Contemporary American fiction (Wiley Blackwell)
2019 “When I First Wore Fish Leather, Or Black Girl in Iceland,” Pan African Spaces: Essays on Black Transnationalism, Msia K. Clark, Phiwokuhle W. Mnyandu, and Loy Azalia, eds. (New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2019)
2017 “Tracing Black Racial and Spatial Politics in South Florida via Memory,” Journal of Urban History, 44:6 (November 2018), 1176–1196 (first published online January 30, 2017)
2017 “The Townsend Family: Black Female “Voice” and Interracial Ties,” Alabama Women, Lisa Dorr and Susan Ashmore, eds. (University of Georgia Press , 2017)
2015 “Remember Me to Miss Louisa”: Hidden Black-White Intimacies in Antebellum America (Northern Illinois University Press, 2015)
2011 “Mr Ballard, I am compelled to write again: Beyond Brothels and Bedrooms, a Fancy Girl Speaks,” Black Women, Gender, and Families, Spring 2011, Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 17-40.
TEACHING
2013-present Assistant Professor , Department of History, University of Alabama, “American Civilization to 1865,” “American Civilization Since 1865,” “Bebop to Hip Hop: Young America and Music,” “Antebellum America Swagger,” “American Swagger,” all undergraduate courses; “Gender, Race and the Urban Space,” graduate course.
2013-2014 UA Bankhead-Summersell Fellow, Department of History, University of Alabama
WORK CITED IN
“Remember Me to Miss Louisa”: Hidden Black-White Intimacies in Antebellum America in Alexandra Finley,” ‘Cash to Corrina;’ Domestic Labor and Sexual Economy in the Fancy Trade,” The Journal of American History, Volume 104, Issue 2, September 2017, pp. 410–430
“Remember Me to Miss Louisa”: Hidden Black-White Intimacies in Antebellum America in Hephzibah V. Strmic-Pawl, Multiracialism and Its Discontents A Comparative Analysis of Asian-White and Black-White Multiracials (New York: Lexington Books, 2016)
“Remember Me to Miss Louisa”: Hidden Black-White Intimacies in Antebellum America in Celine Parrenas Shimizu, “Equal Access to Exploitation and Joy: Women of Color and the Hollywood Stereotype,” Quarterly Review of Film and Video, 33:4 (2016), 303-321
“Remember Me to Miss Louisa”: Hidden Black-White Intimacies in Antebellum America in Tiya Miles, The Dawn of Detroit: A Chronicle of Slavery and Freedom in the City of the Straits (New York: The New Press, 2017)
“Mr Ballard, I am compelled to write again: Beyond Brothels and Bedrooms, a Fancy Girl Speaks,” Black Women, Gender, and Families, in Lisa Ze-Winters, The Mulatta Concubine Terror, Intimacy, Freedom, and Desire in the Black Transatlantic (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2016)
“Remember Me to Miss Louisa”: Hidden Black and White Intimacies in Antebellum America, in Kimberly Snyder Manganelli, The Tragic Mulatta and the Tragic Muse (Piscataway: Rutgers University Press, 2012)
“Remember Me to Miss Louisa”: Hidden Black and White Intimacies in Antebellum America, in David R. Roediger and Elizabeth D. Esch, The Production of Difference: Race and the Management of Labor in U.S. History (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012)
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
2017 “African Americans and Slaveholder Relations,” Alabama Heritage (Fall 2017)
2018 “Female Academies and Educating Young Women Before and After the Civil War,” Alabama Heritage (Summer 2018)
1999 Grant Green: Rediscovering the Forgotten Genius of Jazz Guitar (Miller Freeman); Honorable mention of Best Jazz Book of 1999, Jazz Times magazine
1997 Cuttin the Rug Under the Moonlit Sky: Stories and Drawings About a Bunch of Women Named Mae (Doubleday) Featured in the Los Angeles Times, Newsweek, etc.
OTHER PANELS AND PRESENTATIONS
May 2020 Presenter, May 28-30, “Zora and ‘Sunshine the way it is done in Florida,’” spoken word performance, The 18th Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Gender and Sexualities, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland. (Video available electronically by request given COVID-19)
Mar. 2020 Commenter, paper by Jessica Johnson addressing her forthcoming Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World (University of Pennsylvania Press, August 2020) and paper by Carolyn Morrow Long (Smithsonian Institution, Emeritus) addressing sensational racial determination case involving the Afro-Creole Joubert family in New Orleans in the 19th century, Louisiana Historical Association (LHA) meeting, Baton Rouge, LA. (Offered electronically given COVID-19)
Mar. 2020 Panelist, “The Historian’s Gaze: Visual Texts and Moving Images in Public Interpretation of Social Justice,” National Council on Public History (NCPH) (Cyber roundtable can be found at https://thehistoriansgaze.weebly.com/about-us.html given COVID-19)
Nov. 2019 Panelist, “Zora, the Idea of Rest and ‘Sunshine the way it is done in Florida,’” Association for the Study of the Worldwide Diaspora (ASWAD), 10th Biennial Conference, College of William and
Oct. 2019 Co-Moderator, Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun documentary, Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH), Charleston, SC
Mar. 2019 Panelist, ”Sunshine the Way it is Done in Florida, Or Miami as a Space of Refuge for Zora Neale Hurston,” Southeastern Women’s Studies Association (SEWSA), Oxford, MS
Jan. 2019 Keynote Speaker, “Space Matters: The Black Bahamian in Key West and Beyond,” Key West Art and Historical Society
Oct. 2017 Panelist, “Space Matters from the Seminoles to ‘The U’: Racial Politics on the Peninsula,” Gulf South History and Humanities Conference, Pensacola Beach, FL
Sept. 2017 Panelist, “Education and the Gentleman’s Children Sent From the South,” Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) meeting, Cincinnati
April 2017 Chair, “Black Female/White Male: Repeating History, Repeating Intimacies” panel, Black/White Intimacies 2017 Symposium, UA Department of English
March 2017 Panelist, “Filmmaking in the Age of Moonlight,” Black Warrior Film Festival, University of Alabama, Ferguson Great Hall
Feb. 2017 Keynote Speaker, “Remember Me to Miss Louisa, Or On Navigating Our Complex Historical Shared Past and Present,” and “The New State of Affairs and Our Remedies,” Oklahoma Association of Professional Historians and neighboring state chapters of Phi Alpha Theta
Feb. 2017 Keynote Speaker, “Family Ties: Hidden Black-White Relationships in Antebellum Alabama,” Alabama Department of Archives and History, Food for Thought Series
Nov. 2016 Panelist, “Of Coral Rocks, Sand Dunes and Balloon Mortgages: The Prewar and Postwar Limits of Black Removal in South Florida,” Southern Historical Association (SHA), St. Petersburg, FL
Oct. 2016 Panelist, “University of Miami Football: Spatial and Racial Politics in Postwar Miami-Dade County,” Urban History Association (UHA) conference, Chicago, IL
Jan. 2016 Panelist, “Interracial Intimacies in Antebellum America,” with New York Times best-selling author Dolen Perkins-Valdez; University of Alabama Professor of English Trudier Harris; Wayne State University Associate Professor of History Lisa Ze-Winters, Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center, Tuscaloosa, AL
Oct. 2015 Panelist, “University of Miami Football Pathways of a Global Hip Hop Body Politic in Postwar Miami-Dade County,” Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora (ASWAD) Biennial meeting, Charleston, SC
Mar. 2015 Panelist, “Of University of Miami Football, Marielitos and McDuffie: Pathways of a Particular Body Politic in Postwar Miami-Dade County,” Southeastern Women’s Studies Association (SEWSA) conference, Boca Raton, FL
July 2014 Panelist, “‘Some Kind of Love?’: Black-White Intimacies in Antebellum America,” 41st Annual Faulkner & Yoknapatawpha Conference, “Faulkner & History,” University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS, with Margaret Wrinkle, Calvin Schermerhorn, and Lael Gold
May 2013 Presenter, “‘A Matter I Deserve to Have’: Freedwomen in Antebellum Cincinnati,” The Newberry Library Seminar on Women and Gender, Chicago, IL
HONORS
2021 National Endowment for the Humanities Newberry Fellow
2020 PEN America Jean Stein Grant for Literary Oral History
2016 Western Association of Women Historians (WAWH) Barbara “Penny” Kanner Prize for archival research in Remember Me to Miss Louisa: Hidden Black-White Intimacies in Antebellum America (Northern Illinois University Press,2015)
2014 Co-Honoree, Educator of the Year, Tuscaloosa County Preservation Society
2014 Alternate, Ford Foundation, Postdoctoral Fellowship
2007 Ruth Murray Essay Prize, Honorable Mention, Graduate Student category, Center for Gender and Women’s Studies, University of Chicago
REVIEWS
Spr. 2017 Reviewer, Catherine Clinton, Stepdaughters of History: Southern Women and the American Civil War, Kentucky Historical Society, Vol. 116, No. 1, Winter 2018, pp. 132-135
Spr. 2016 Reviewer, Emily West, Family or Freedom: People of Color in the Antebellum South, (University Press of Kentucky, 2012), Alabama Review, Volume 69, Issue No. 2, April 2016, pp. 171-174
Sum. 2015 Reviewer, Bonnie Stepenoff, Working the Mississippi: Two Centuries of Life on the River (Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 2015), The Journal of Southern History, Vol. 82, No. 3, Aug. 2016, p. 67.
SERVICE
DEPARTMENT
2018-present Member, Academic Continuity Cmte., History Department
2017-present Chair, Technology Committee, Department of History, UA
2016-2017 Member, Undergraduate Affairs Committee, Department of History, UA
2015-2016 Member, Summersell Chair in Southern History Search Committee, History Department, UA
2014-2016 Member, Faculty Affairs Committee, History Department
2014- 2015 Member, China Search Committee, History Department
GRADUATE COMMUNITY
2017-2018 Member, MA Cmte., Alex Bauer, Department of English, UA
2016-2018 Informal Adviser, Lane McClelland, doctoral student, School of Education, UA
2015-17 Co-Director, Doctoral Cmte., Virginia Cain, History Department, UA
2014-15 Member, MA Cmte., April Cadell, Gender and Race Studies, UA
2013-present Member, Doctoral Cmte., Mark Johnson, History Department, UA
UNIVERSITY COMMUNITY
2020 Board, Alabama Heritage magazine
2019 Curator, “Space Matters,” cartographic digital installation Gorgas House, UA
2018 Evaluator, University of Alabama Press
2018 Commentator, Graduate History Association Power & Struggle Conference, University of Alabama
2018 Silent Auction Donor, Lunafest, UA Women and Gender Resource Center
2018 Coordinator, “Mecca: Atlanta, Harlem, Miami and Beyond,” Paul R. Jones Museum, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Alabama
2018 Presenter, “The Grant Green Story,” UA Faculty Technology Showcase
2017 Presenter, “The Grant Green Story” screening, Moody Building Recital Hall, University of Alabama
2017 Adjudicator, Repertory Dance Theatre Concert, Department of Theatre and Dance 2015-2017 Member, Faculty Curating Committee, “Freedom?” exhibit, Paul R. Jones Gallery, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Alabama
2014-2015 Faculty Mentor, Ola Gerald and Alexandra Gilbert, Emerging Scholars, University of Alabama
LOCAL COMMUNITY
2018 Judge, K-12 Art Contest, The Links, Tuscaloosa Chapter
2018 Coordinator, “Mecca: Atlanta, Harlem, Miami and Beyond” exhibit for Gender, Race and Urban Space graduate class, Paul R. Jones Museum
2016 Organizer, “Mississippi & Miami,” digital art installation, Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center, Tuscaloosa
2015 Organizer, Females Academies exhibit for “The Nineteenth Century City” course, UA Gorgas House
2015 Presenter, African American History Month Art Exhibit, UA Ferguson Center
2015 Organizer, Tribute to Participants in Black Miami Spatial Politics Study, Hollywood Beach Marriott, Hollywood, FL
2014 Editor, “Druid City: A Music Video” for “The Nineteenth Century City” course, Jemison Mansion, Tuscaloosa
EXTERNAL
2017 Interviewee, “Race and University of Alabama,” ESPN Sports Center
2017 Grant Reviewer, National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), Washington, D.C.
2017 Artist in Residence, Textilsetur, Icelandic Textile Center, Blonduos, Iceland
2017 Consultant, “Who in the World Do You Think You Are?” History Channel
2017 Interviewee, “December 2017 Special Election, Alabama,” History Channel
DIGITAL/ART EXHIBITIONS-PRESENTATIONS
2019 Curator, “Space Matters,” cartographic digital installation Gorgas House, University of Alabama
2017 Group show, “Drawing Set,” curated by Marco Maggi and ESOPUS, New York Public Library
2017 Group show, Textilsetur, Artist Residency, Blondous, Iceland
2017 Installation, “Breathe,” Ferguson Gallery, University of Alabama
2016-17 Director, “The Grant Green Story” jazz documentary, Harlem International Film Festival, New York, NY; Bíó Paradís, Reykjavik, Iceland; Cameo Theatre, Edinburgh, Scotland
2016 Curator, “Mississippi & Miami: a digital art installation,” with graduate class, Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center, Tuscaloosa, AL
2015 Spoken Word Presenter, “Makes You Happy,” Marie-Christine Giordano and Lacy James salon, curators, Marie-Christine Giordano Dance, Brooklyn, NY
2015 Co-Presenter, Black History Month Exhibit, Cuttin’ the Rug illustrations, University of Alabama Ferguson Center Gallery
2005 Director-Photographer, Gamla Stan
2005 “Makes You Happy,” choreopoem/videoscape, Third Annual Fringe Festival, Broach Theatre, Greensboro, NC
2001 Solo show, Peligro, New Orleans
2000 Group show, Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (MoCADA), Brooklyn
1997 Solo show, 2-South Gallery, Detroit
1999 Group show, Red Piano Too, St. Helena Island, SC
1995 Open Studio, then-Villa Montalvo, Artist Residency, Saratoga, CA
1992 Group show, ArtCenter South Florida, Miami Beach, curated by the late electro-punk singer-artist Tomata du Plenty
OTHER EMPLOYMENT
1989-2003 Copy Editor, Reporter, Assistant Nation/World Editor, Business Editor, Knight Ridder Inc.-now McClatchy (The Miami Herald, Detroit Free Press, and Columbus (Ga) Ledger-Enquirer); Freelance Writer and/or Editor (BMG Entertainment, Essence, Associated Press, Vanguarde Media)
