BETTYE COLLIER-THOMAS
(Ph.D., George Washington University)
Professor of History and
Director of Center for African-American History and Culture
bcollier@temple.edu

Research and Teaching Interests:
African-American History; American Social History, Women's History.

Personal Statement:
My graduate teaching interests are in the areas of women's history and American social and urban history, with a special emphasis on the history of African Americans. My current research interests focus on African American women and religion, the civil rights and black power movement, an institutional history of black theaters, and the relationship between African American history and fiction.

Representative Publications:
Daughters of Thunder: Black Women Preachers and Their Sermons, 1850-1979 (Jossey Bass Publishers, 1997).

My Soul Is A Witness: A Chronology of the Civil Rights Era, 1954-1965 (Henry Holt, 2000), co-author with V. P. Franklin.

A Treasury of African American Christmas Stories, Vols. I and II (Henry Holt, 1997, 1999), editor.

African American Women and the Vote, 1837-1965 (Univ. of Mass., 1997), co-editor with Ann Gordon, et. al.

"Race, Class and Color: The African American Discourse on Identity," Journal of American Ethnic History, Vol. 14, No. 1, Fall 1994, pp. 5-31, co-author James Turner.

• Among other awards and grants, Professor Collier-Thomas has held major grants from the Ford Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities, Rockefeller Foundation and the Lilly Endowment, Inc. She is currently the director of "African American Women and the Church, 1780-1970," one of the four premier national documentary projects focused on African American religion and funded by the Lilly Endowment, Inc.