Participant Info
- First Name
- Misti
- Last Name
- Harper
- Country
- United States
- State
- MN Minnesota
- mnharper@gustavus.edu
- Affiliation
- Gustavus Adolphus College
- Website URL
- Keywords
- African American history and women's history; gender and sexuality studies; intersectional feminism; tribalism; imperialism, resistance and decolonization
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- I am happy to speak to journalists and may be reached at my Gustavus Adolphus address, or my secondary address: mxh040@uark.edu.
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
Dr. Misti Nicole Harper graduated from the University of Arkansas with her Ph.D. in History in 2017. Her current book project, Ladies of Little Rock: Black Femininity and Respectability Politics in the Fight to Desegregate Central High School, explores the intersections of color, sex, and respectability politics at Little Rock in 1957. She is presently the visiting assistant professor of US Women’s History at Gustavus Adolphus College in Saint Peter, Minnesota. Her side projects include examining black women’s leadership during Minnesota’s battle for suffrage, and centering Prince Rogers Nelson and the Minneapolis sound as products of the Louisiana jazz migration.
- Recent Publications
“Portrait of a (Invented) Lady: Daisy Gatson Bates and the Challenge of Respectability,” for The Arkansas Historical Quarterly 78 (3): Autumn 2019
Documentary Series Interview, Collecting Black Pearls: Discovering African-American Culture and History, Through Stories, Tours and Treasures (in production, 2019-2020)
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- Country Focus
- United States
- Expertise by Geography
- Africa, Ireland, United Kingdom, United States
- Expertise by Chronology
- 19th century, Modern, 20th century, 21st century
- Expertise by Topic
- American Civil War, American Revolution, Colonialism, Emancipation, Gender, Law, Material Culture, Race, Rebellion & Revolution, Sexuality, Sexual Violence, Slavery, Women
