Shawn Leigh Alexander, who received his PhD in Afro-American Studies from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst in 2004, is an Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies at the University of Kansas. His area of concentration is African American social and intellectual history of the 19th and 20th Centuries. His work on early African American civil rights activity has been published in the Great Plains Quarterly and in Radicalism in the South Since Reconstruction (Palgrave, 2006). His anthology of T. Thomas Fortune's writings, T. Thomas Fortune, the Afro-American Agitator is forthcoming from the University Press of Florida (Spring 2008). He is also completing a monograph on civil rights activity in the post- Reconstruction era (University of Pennsylvania Press). Prior to joining the University of Kansas, Professor Alexander taught at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst College, Gettysburg College, and Yale University, where he was the first Cassius Marcellus Clay Fellow (2005-2007) in the Department of History.
