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Chana Kai Lee

African American, U.S. Women's, 20th Century U.S.

Associate Professor
Ph.D., UCLA, 1993

Office: 130 LeConte
Office Hours: By appointment on TR; please email her
Phone: (706) 542-2541

chanakai@uga.edu

Lee is author of For Freedom's Sake: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer (Illinois, 1999), which won the Willie Lee Rose Prize awarded by the Southern Association of Women Historians and the Letitia Woods Brown Memorial Book Prize awarded by the Association of Black Women Historians.

Research and Teaching Interests

[African American]
[Gender & Sexuality]
[U.S. 19th & 20th Century]
[Women's History]

Selected Publications

For Freedom's Sake: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer (Illinois, 1999) More Info

Honors and Awards

Willie Lee Rose Prize, Southern Association of Women Historians (2000)

Letitia Woods Brown Memorial Book Prize, Association of Black Women Historians (2000)

Courses Taught

HIST2112: U.S. History 1865 to Present [Syllabus]

HIST4120: Civil Rights Movement [Syllabus]

MA Theses Supervised

Cobbins, Quin'Nita, "Making 'Good' Citizens: Education, Citizenship, and the National Association of Colored Women, 1920-1941" (2012)