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
Book Reviews
Nancy Koester, We Will Be Free: The Life and Faith of Sojourner Truth in Fides et Historia, forthcoming.
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
https://wacohistory.org/items/browse/
Selected Activities
Awards
- Keller Key Recipient, UNA , 2020
- Outstanding English Graduate, UNA, 2020
- Outstanding History Graduate, UNA, 2020
- Outstanding Academic Achievement, UNA Honors College, 2020
Fellowships
- Graduate Student Fellowship, Baylor University, 2020-Present
Grants
- Summersell Center for the Study of the South, Travel Grant Recipient, 2023