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Adriane D. Lentz-Smith, Associate Professor of History

Adriane D. Lentz-Smith
Office Location:  Dept of History, Classroom Bldg, Box 90719, Durham, NC 27708-0719
Email Address:  send me a message
Web Page:   http://www.duke.edu/womstud/~adl16

Teaching (Fall 2025):

  • History 146s.01, American histories Synopsis
    Class bldg 229, Th 08:30 AM-11:00 AM
  • History 342.01, Making modern america Synopsis
    Class bldg 240, TuTh 01:25 PM-02:40 PM
Office Hours:

By appointment
Education:

  • Ph.D. Yale University 2005
  • BA Harvard University 1996

Specialties:

African Diaspora
United States and Canada
Race and Ethnicity
Human Rights and Social Movements
Women, Gender and Sexuality
War, Military and Society
Cultural History
Research Interests: United States History, African American History, African Americans and the World

My interests lie in African American history and the history of the US & the World. My 2009 book, Freedom Struggles: African Americans and World War I, looks at the black freedom struggle in the World War I years, with a particular focus on manhood, citizenship claims, and the international experience. My recent research explores how African Americans engaged the world in the age of Cold War civil rights, and how their participation in US state and empire set the horizons of their freedom struggles.

Representative Publications   (More Publications)   (search)
  1. Lentz-Smith, A. Freedom Struggles: African Americans & World War I.  Harvard University Press, 2009. [catalog.php]

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