Courtney Joseph
Associate Professor of History and African American Studies
History
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- cpjoseph@lakeforest.edu
Specialization
African American History and Culture
Haiti and its Diaspora
Women and Gender Studies
Hip Hop Culture
Education
PhD in History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
MA in History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
BA in History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, with a minor in African American Studies
Courses
FIYS 177: Black Activism in Chicago
History 202: African American History, 1619–1865
History 203: African American History, 1865–2016
History 275: Black Her-story: Black Women’s History of the US
History 300: The Historian's Workshop
History 317: The History of Black Television
African American Studies 110: Intro to African American Studies
African American Studies 228: History of Hip Hop
African American Studies 305: Women and Gender in Hip Hop
Selected Publications
Haitian American Museum of Chicago Oral History Digital Archive
C. Pierre Joseph. “Diasporic ambassadors: Black women, pageants, and building connections across the African diaspora in the late twentieth century.” African and Black Diaspora: An International Journal, Volume 14, Issue 1, 2022
C. Pierre Joseph. “Life in Bronzeville: The Humanist Poetry of Gwendolyn Brooks,” in A History of Chicago Literature, edited by Frederik Bryn Køhlert. (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England, Forthcoming).
C. Pierre Joseph. “Being Black and Bicultural: Racial and Ethnic Identity Formation of Haitian Americans in Chicago,” in Pan African Spaces: Essays on Black Transnationalism, edited by Msia Kibona Clark, Loy Azalia, and Phiwokuhle Mnyandu. (Lexington Books, Lanham MD: 2019).
C. Pierre Joseph. “Book Review: A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History by Jeanne Theoharis,” in The Public Historian, Volume 40, Number 4, November 2018.
Selected Conference Presentations
IEHS Roundtable Discussion: “New Directions in African American, African Diasporic, and Immigration History” Organization of American Historians 2022 Annual Meeting
Roundtable Discussion, Why Black Midwestern History Matters, Midwestern History Association Conference, 2021
Presenter: “The Sanctity of Stories: Haitians and Religion in Chicago” 2018 The Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science, Loyola University
Presenter: “Haiti and Chicago: A Hidden History” 2018 Black Communities Conference, University of North Carolina
Presenter: “A Moment of Despair: Haitians in Chicago, 1957-1985” 2017 University of Texas at San Antonio 10th Annual African American Studies Symposium: Intersectional Black Identities
Presenter: “Duvalierism, the Changing Idea of Haiti and the Formation of the Haitian Diaspora in Chicago, 1957–1985” 2017
Harvard University Graduate Conference on International History: Migration, Immigration, and Diaspora
Selected Public History Events
October 2022 History Center of Lake Forest-Lake Bluff “Finding William Peyton: Early Black Presence at Lake Forest College”
January 2021 Newberry Library: The Great Migration, Reconsidered
September 2020: Chicago Humanities Festival “ Monuments and Memorials”
June 2020: Marlborough School interview on Juneteenth
June 2020: Muslim TV interview “ Why We Rebel: Then and Now”
October 2017: TedXLFC Talk “ Walking the Curved Line to the PhD”
Honors and Awards
Most Outstanding Advisor, 2019, Lake Forest College
Bright Institute Fellowship 2018-2020, Knox College
Digital Chicago Fellowship 2018, Lake Forest College