Kali N. Gross
| Position: | Associate Professor & Director of Africana Studies |
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| Field: | African-American history, gender studies, history of criminal justice | |
| Office: | 3025 MacAlister | |
| Phone: | (215) 895-6870 | |
| Email: | kng25@drexel.edu | |
| Office Hours: | click here for current office hours |
Personal Statement
I am an assistant professor of History and the director of the Africana Studies Program (formerly African American Studies) in the College of Arts and Sciences at Drexel University. I have an extensive background in the study of race and crime and also in the experience of blacks in the U.S., the Caribbean, and in South America. I received my B.A. in Africana Studies from Cornell University and an M.A. and Ph.D. in American Civilization and History from the University of Pennsylvania. My book, Colored Amazons: Crime, Violence, and Black Women in the City of Brotherly Love, 1880-1910, is forthcoming from Duke University Press. I have been the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, some of the most notable being a Ford Postdoctoral Fellowship hosted at Princeton University and a postdoctoral fellowship at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in New York City.
Education
- B.A., magna cum laude, Africana Studies, Cornell University, 1994
- M.A., American Civilization, University of Pennsylvania, 1995
- Ph.D., History, University of Pennsylvania, 1999
Recent Publications
- Colored Amazons: Crime, Violence, and Black Women in the City of Brotherly Love, 1880-1910, (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006).
Courses Usually Taught
- HIST 211 -- African-American History, 20th Century
- HIST 215 -- American Slavery
- HIST 216 -- Freedom in America
- HIST 218 -- Race & Film in US History
- HIST 298 -- Women, Crime & History
