Participant Info
- First Name
- Sarah
- Last Name
- Silkey
- Country
- United States
- State
- PA Pennsylvania
- history@lycoming.edu
- Affiliation
- Lycoming College
- Website URL
- https://www.lycoming.edu/profile/faculty/silkeySarah.aspx
- Keywords
- history of lynching and racial violence; history of social justice movements; US cultural and intellectual history; African American history; race, gender, and citizenship
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
I am a professor of History and Social and Economic Justice at Lycoming College. I specialize in the social, intellectual, and cultural history of modern America with an emphasis on the history of racial violence and social justice movements. My first book, Black Woman Reformer: Ida B. Wells, Lynching, and Transatlantic Activism, examines how Ida B. Wells’s transnational antilynching campaigns influenced British and American understandings of mob violence. I am currently collaborating on a book project analyzing a rare Reconstruction-era collection of correspondence from a family with ties to the Ku Klux Klan.
- Recent Publications
“Why the current protest movement has (and needs) many different leaders,” Fast Company, 10 July 2020.
“There are many leaders of today’s protest movement – just like the civil rights movement,” The Conversation, 7 July 2020.
“Ida B. Wells won the Pulitzer. Here’s why that matters,” Washington Post, 7 May 2020.
Book:
Black Woman Reformer: Ida B. Wells, Lynching, and Transatlantic Activism (University of Georgia Press, 2015).
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- @slsilkey
- Country Focus
- United States
- Expertise by Geography
- United Kingdom, United States
- Expertise by Chronology
- 19th century, 20th century, 21st century
- Expertise by Topic
- Gender, Human Rights, Race, Women
