African American history

Colonial America

early republic America

comparative slavery

black atlantic history

Education

• Ph.D. American History, University of Delaware 2017
• M.A. American History, University of Delaware, 2013

Research Interests

Dickinson's research interests include comparative slavery, the Atlantic slave trade and early African American history.

Select Publications

• "Almost Dead: Slavery and Social Rebirth in the Black Urban Atlantic, 1680-1807," University of Georgia Press.
• “The Propaganda of History: African American Responses to Confederate Memorials in the Jim Crow Era” in After the Monuments Fall: the Removal of Confederate Monuments in the American South, edited by Bryan Clark Green. Louisiana State University Press, Under contract.
• “Black Realities and White Statues: The Fall of Confederate Monuments,” Black Perspectives, African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), June 2020.

Affiliations

• The Association for African American Life & History
• American Historical Association
• Caribbean Studies Association
• National Council for Black Studies
• African American Intellectual History Society

Courses

• HIST 103: American History I Seminar 
• HIST 361-2/AFAM 361-2: Americans from Africa I & 2 
• HIST 391/AFAM491: Revolutionary Black Thought 
• HIST 490: American Slavery 
• HIST 627: Readings in African American History 

Awards

• Paul E. Lovejoy book prize for "Amost Dead," 2023
• HistoryMakers' 2023-2024 Innovations in Pedogogy and Teaching fellowship
• Residential Fellowship, VCU Humanities Research Center, Spring 2022
• Workshop fellow, John Carter Brown Library (Brown University), Fall 2020
• Barra Sabbatical Fellowship, McNeil Center for Early American Studies, University of Pennsylvania, 2019-2020
• SITPA Fellow, Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity and Gender in the Social Sciences, Duke University, 2018
• Research Fellowship, Library Company of Philadelphia, 2016

Public Speaking/Interviews

• CNN, The Situation Room, June 2020
• The Dogwood (Richmond, VA), June 2020
• The Sydney Morning Herald, July 2020
• Vox News, July 2020
• The Globe Post, July 2020
• NPR, September 2021

Links

• Almost Dead: Slavery and Social Rebirth in the Black Urban Atlantic, 1680-1807, University of Georgia Press, 5/1/2022
• “Black Realities and White Statues: The Fall of Confederate Monuments,” Black Perspectives, African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), 7/2020.