Erin Chapman

Erin Chapman

Erin Chapman, associate professor of history and women’s studies, is an expert on U.S. racial discourses, African American gender politics and racialized popular culture. Her research focuses on gendered African American visions of freedom beyond emancipation from slavery and the cultural investment in African American women’s images and bodies that pervaded U.S. society in the midst of transformations in race politics, sexual mores and popular culture.