Speakers
- Anna-Lisa Cox
- Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, Harvard University, Fellow
Dr. Anna-Lisa Cox is an award winning historian on the history of racism and race relations in nineteenth-century America. She is a non-resident Fellow at Harvard University’s Hutchins Center for African and African American Research. She was a recent Research Associate at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture where her original research underpinned two historical exhibits. Dr. Cox has been the recipient of numerous awards for her research, including a Gilder Lehrman Foundation Fellowship and grants from the Spencer Foundation. Her published works include numerous essays and editorials as well as the books A Stronger Kinship: One Town’s Extraordinary Story of Hope and Faith and The Bone and Sinew of the Land: America’s Forgotten Black Pioneers and the Struggle for Equality, which was honored by The Smithsonian Magazine as one of their “Best History Books of 2018.”