Beatrice Adams
Assistant Professor of History
Phone: 330-287-1915
Office: Kauke Hall 114
Degrees
B.A., Fisk University 2012
M.A., University of Chicago 2013
Ph.D., Rutgers University, New-Brunswick 2021
Beatrice J. Adams is an Assistant Professor of History at the College of Wooster.She received her Ph.D. in African American and African Diaspora History from Rutgers-New Brunswick in the spring of 2021. While at Rutgers, she served as a researcher for the Scarlet and Black Project and contributed to three volumes of the project’s award-winning book series.She also served as a researcher for the Rise Up Newark Digital History Project—a public history project that explores the dynamics of the Modern Black Freedom Movement in the urban North. Her book in progress, “We Might as Well Fight at Home: African Americans Claiming the American South,” examines the experiences of African Americans who remained in and returned to the American South during the Great Migration and the emergence of the New Great Migration. Her research has been supported by the Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis, the John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University, the Andrew Mellon Foundation, and the James Weldon Johnson Institute for the Study of Race and Difference at Emory University. She received her BA in History and Religion & Philosophical Studies from Fisk University in 2012 and her MA in Social Sciences from the University of Chicago in 2013.
- African American History
- Modern Black Freedom Movement
- History of Intersectionality
We Might as Well Fight at Home: African Americans Claiming the American South (Work-in-progress)
Those Who Stayed: Challenging Jim Crow and Championing Civil Rights in the South (co-edited with Sonjia Parker Redmond) (Under Review)
Book Chapters
“‘I Hereby Bequeath…’ Excavating the Enslaved from the Wills of the Early Leaders of Queen’s College” and “From the Classroom to the American Colonization Society: Making Race at Rutgers,” Scarlet and Black: Slavery and Dispossession in Rutgers History, eds. Marisa Fuentes and Deborah Gray White, Rutgers University Press, 2016.
“The Rutgers Race Man: Early Black Students at Rutgers College,” Scarlet and Black Volume II, Constructing Race and Gender at Rutgers, 1865-1945, eds. Marisa Fuentes and Deborah Gray White, Rutgers University Press, 2020.
“A Second Founding: The Black and Puerto Rican Student Revolution at Rutgers-Camden and Rutgers-Newark,” Scarlet and Black Volume III, eds. Marisa Fuentes and Deborah Gray White, Rutgers University Press, Rutgers University Press, 2021.
Digital Scholarship
“Chapter Four: The Gibson Years,” The North: Newark, https://riseupnewark.com/.
https://scarletandblack.rutgers.edu/archive/exhibits/show/alumni-gallery/introduction.
Post-Doctoral Fellow, James Weldon Johnson Institute for the Study of Race and Difference, 2022-2023
Mellon Graduate Fellowships in the Humanities, Dissertation Completion Fellowship, 2020-2021
The Ford Foundation Minority Dissertation Fellowship, Alternate, 2019-2020
Neal Ira Rosenthal History Travel Award, Rutgers University, 2017-2018
Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis, Graduate Fellow, Black Bodies, 2017-2018
John Hope Franklin Center for Documentary Studies, Research Fellow, Duke University, 2016-2017