Brenda E. Stevenson

Professor of History at UCLA, Hillary Rodham Clinton Chair of Women’s History, St John's College

Professor Stevenson, current Nickoll Family Endowed Professor of History at UCLA, is an outstanding international historian of race, slavery, gender, family and conflict. Her work explores the intersections of sex, race and politics, putting women – and particularly women of colour – at the centre of accounts of political and social developments. Her many publications include works that are sensitive reconstructions of women’s lives and examinations of family dynamics and include The Journals of Charlotte Forten Grimké (Oxford 1988); Life in Black and White: Family and Community in the Slave South (Oxford 1996); The Contested Murder of Latasha Harlins: Justice, Gender and the Origins of the L.A. Riots (Oxford 2013); and, What is Slavery? (Polity 2015).