Shirley E. Thompson

Shirley E. Thompson is Associate Professor of American Studies and of African and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research interests include 19^th century US cultural history, slavery and post-emancipation politics, and cultural memory. She is currently working on a book project entitled No More Auction Block for Me: African Americans and the Problem of Property, and has published Exiles at Home: The Struggle to Become American in Creole New Orleans (2009). Her publications have appeared in journals such as Transition, Race, Poverty, and the Environment, Leisure Studies, and American Quarterly. Thompson holds an AB in History from Harvard College, and an AM in History and PhD in History of American Civilization from Harvard University.