LaShawn Harris

LaShawn Harris is an Associate Professor of History at Michigan State University and former Managing and Book Review Editor for the Journal of African American History. She is a historian of U. S. history with a focus on African American, Black Women’s, and urban histories. Harris’s scholarly essays have appeared in Journal of Social History, Journal of Urban History, and SOULS: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society. Her first monograph, Sex Workers, Psychics, and Number Runners: Black Women in New York City’s Underground Economy, was published by the University of Illinois Press in 2016 and won the Organization of American Historians’ Darlene Clark Hine award and the Philip Taft Labor Prize from The Labor and Working-Class History Association. Harris is also the author of Tell Her Story: Eleanor Bumpurs & the Police Killing That Galvanized New York City, published by Beacon Press.