Background

Kimberley L. Phillips received her B. A. from the University of San Diego and her Ph.D. in American Studies, from Yale University. She teaches courses on African American and American cultural and social history. Her book, AlabamaNorth: African American Migrants, Community, and Working-Class Activism in Cleveland (University of Illinois Press, 1999), received the Illinois American History Award for the most outstanding book in American History published by the University of Illinois Press in 1999. She is working on an edited collection of essays, Pattin' Juba: Essays in African American Popular Culture, (University of Pennsylvania Press) and a study of African Americans' cultural production about the military. She has written articles on African American workers, religion, music, and migration. Her work in public history includes museum exhibits and teacher guides on oral history in the K-12 classroom.