Alisa Y. Harrison
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Education
- MA University of British Columbia, 2001
- BA University of British Columbia, 1999
Research Interests
My dissertation, "Reconstructing Somerset Place: Historical Consciousness and Collected Memory in 20th-Century North Carolina," examines the changing representations of slavery at Somerset Place, a plantation in eastern North Carolina, since Reconstruction.
Awards, Honors, and Distinctions
- Graduate Student Teaching Award, African and African American Studies, Duke University, May 2004
- Jacquelyn Dowd Hall Prize, Southern Association for Women Historians, June 2003
Recent Publications
- A.Y. Harrison. ""Women's and Girls Activism in 1960s Southwest Georgia: Rethinking History and Historiography"." Women Shaping the South: Creating and Confronting Change (forthcoming).
- A.Y. Harrison, "Hope and Danger in the New South City: Working Class Women and Urban Development in Atlanta, 1890-1940". H-South (July 12, 2004). [edu]
- A.Y. Harrison, "American Congo: The African American Freedom Struggle in the Delta". North Carolina Historical Review (April 2004).