Allie R. Lopez
Ph.D. Candidate and Teacher of Record
Advisor
Dr. Robert Elder
Education
B.A. in History, English, summa cum laude
Minor: Spanish
University of North Alabama, 2020
Research Narrative & Academic Interests
Broadly, my research focuses on the Black freedom struggle in the rural South. In this, I hope to explore how local iterations of white structural control impacted Black women and men as they sought to sustain themselves under Jim Crow.
Exam Fields: US post-1877, African American History, African Diaspora
Selected Publications
Peer-Reviewed Articles
“Segregationist Schemes: The Citizens’ Council, Reverse Freedom Rides, and Opposition to Welfare in Alabama, 1962–1968, Alabama Review
Public-Facing Articles
TIME, Made by History
“The Origin of the ‘Welfare Queen’ Myth”
TIME, Made by History
Co-author, “The History of Rural Black Land Loss
Patheos, Anxious Bench
“Everyday People in Everyday Places”
Encyclopedia Entries
Encyclopedia of Alabama "Reverse Freedom Rides"
Book Reviews
Nancy Koester, We Will Be Free: The Life and Faith of Sojourner Truth in Fides et Historia
Angela D. Sims, Lynched: The Power of Memory in a Culture of Terror in Sound Historian, 2022.
Melissa J. Wilde, Birth Control Battles: How Race and Class Divided American Religion in Society for US Intellectual History, 2021.
Blog Posts
“Everyday People in Everyday Places: Local Civil Rights Movements and the Long Black Freedom Struggle, Patheos, Anxious Bench, 2023.
“The Call to Comprehensive Justice,” Patheos, Anxious Bench, 2022.
Waco History App
- “Mercy Dee Walton”
- “Urban Renewal”
- “The Harley Berg Show”
- “Karem Shrine Temple”
- “Shep Mullens”
- For more, see https://wacohistory.org/items/browse/
Selected Activities
Awards
- Keller Key Recipient
- Outstanding English Graduate
- Outstanding History Graduate
- Outstanding Academic Achievement, UNA Honors College
Fellowships
- Graduate Student Fellowship, Baylor University, 2020-Present
Grants
- OAH John Higham Research Fellowship
- AHA Coley Student Research Award
- Summersell Center for the Study of the South, Travel Grant Recipient