Personal profile
About
Karen Kossie-Chernyshev is a fifth-generation Texan and the first African-American woman to earn a Ph.D. in the field of history from a Texas institution (Rice University). Her research focuses on African American women’s intellectual history, African American religion, and topics in the African Diaspora. Her edited works include Recovering Five Generations Hence: The Life and Writing of Lillian Jones Horace (Texas A & M University Press, 2013) and Angie Brown (Outskirts Press, 2017). Dr. Kossie-Chernyshev is also the founding director of SWATH, an interdisciplinary summer workshop on African American Texas History for local K-16 teachers: www.swathonline.org.
Disciplines
- History
- Social and Behavioral Sciences
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Book Review: Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistance. By Mia Bay (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2021)
Kossie-Chernyshev, K., Jan 2023Research output: Other contribution
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My Comments on _Blurring the Color Line_ by Crystal Wok
Kossie-Chernyshev, K., 2023Research output: Other contribution
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"Texas 'Our' Texas: My Family's Deep Roots in the Lone Star State"
Kossie-Chernyshev, K., Sep 2022, In: Stirpes: The Journal of the Texas State Genealogical Society. 61Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Black Women Scholars in the Ebony Tower
Kossie-Chernyshev, K., Nov 17 2021Research output: Non-textual form › Digital or Visual Products
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Remembering and Re-Membering the Middle Passage: 100 Years of Fact and Fiction, From Lillian Jones Horace’s Five Generations Hence (1916) to Sowande’ Mustakeem’s Slavery at Sea (2016)
Kossie-Chernyshev, K., Feb 22 2021.Research output: Contribution to conference › Presentation