Hamlin, Francoise

Francoise N Hamlin

Associate Professor

Overview

Françoise N. Hamlin (Ph.D. Yale University, 2004) is an Associate Professor in History and Africana Studies and teaches undergraduate and graduate courses primarily in twentieth century U.S. history, African American history, southern history, cultural studies and Africana Studies. Prior to joining the faculty at Brown, Professor Hamlin was a DuBois-Mandela-Rodney fellow at the University of Michigan (2004-2005), and an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst (2005-2007). Since then she has been a Charles Warren Center Fellow at Harvard University (2007-2008), a Woodrow Wilson-Mellon Fellow (2010-2011), the American Council of Learned Societies, Frederick Burkhardt Fellow (2017-2018) at the Radcliffe Institute, a fellow-in-residence at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard, and a Howard Foundation Fellow. She was most recently a Andrew Carnegie Foundation Fellow (2021-2023).

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The Struggle of Struggles. University Press of Mississippi, 2023.

"African American: Defining Freedom, Citizenship, and Patriotism." A History of American Literature and Culture of the First World War , edited by edited Tim Dayton and Mark Van Wienen, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2021.

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"Undercover for the Movement: Double Agents and Activists." journal of civil and human rights, vol. 6, no. 1, 2020.

Hamlin, Françoise N. "Historians and Ethics: Finding Anne Moody." The American Historical Review, vol. 125, no. 2, 2020, pp. 487-497.

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"’You See Your Own Eyes Reflected Back’: The Radical Potential of Art and Oral History in Imagining a New Humanism,”." Research in Human Development, vol. 16, no. 3-4, 2019.

Hamlin, Françoise N. "Remember Little Rock." Journal of American History, vol. 105, no. 2, 2018, pp. 466-467.

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"Mississippi Beautiful: The Unveiling of the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum." Los Angeles Review of Books, no. 13 January 2018, 2018.

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Hamlin, Françoise N. "Schooling for Freedom: Education and the Black Freedom Struggle in Mississippi." History of Education Quarterly, vol. 57, no. 02, 2017, pp. 278-284.

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"Challenging Sociology’s History." journal of civil and human rights, 2016.

"Introduction to William McCord, Mississippi: The Long, Hot Summer”.", The University of Mississippi Press, 2016.

Hamlin, Françoise N. "Courting the Senses: Experiential Learning and Civil Rights Movement Pedagogy." The Black Scholar, vol. 46, no. 4, 2016, pp. 16-32.

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co-edited with A. Yemisi Jimoh. These Truly Are The Brave: An Anthology of African American Writings on War and Citizenship. University Press of Florida, 2015.

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"The Confederate Flag: When Heritage is Hate”." What's On Magazine, 2015.

Hamlin, F. N. "M. J. O'BRIEN. We Shall Not Be Moved: The Jackson Woolworth's Sit-In and the Movement It Inspired. JAMES P. MARSHALL. Student Activism and Civil Rights in Mississippi: Protest Politics and the Struggle for Racial Justice, 1960-1965." The American Historical Review, vol. 119, no. 3, 2014, pp. 938-940.

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Hamlin, F. N. "The Nashville Way: Racial Etiquette and the Struggle for Social Justice in a Southern City." Journal of American History, vol. 100, no. 3, 2013, pp. 917-917.

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"Collision and Collusion: Local Activism, Local Agency and Flexible Alliances”." Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi, The University of Mississippi Press, 2013.

Crossroads at Clarksdale: The Black Freedom Struggle in the Mississippi Delta After World War II. University of North Carolina Press, 2012.

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"Vera Mae Pigee (1925- ): Mothering the Movement”." Proteus, 2005.

"Vera Mae Pigee (1925- ): Mothering the Movement”." Mississippi Women: Their Histories, Their Lives, University of Georgia Press, 2003.

"The Book Hasn’t Closed, The Story is Not Finished: Coahoma County, Mississippi, Civil Rights and the Recovery of a History”." The Sound Historian, 2002.

Research

Research Overview

Professor Hamlin first monograph, _Crossroads At Clarksdale: The Black Freedom Struggle in the Mississippi Delta After World War II_ recently won the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians First Book Prize for 2012 and the Lillian Smith Book Award. She co-edited an anthology, _Truly These Are The Brave: An Anthology of African Americans Writing on Citizenship and War_ which was a finalist for the QBR Book Prize in 2015.

Her next monograph focuses on children and youth and the complexities of activism during the civil rights movement.

In 2023, the University Press of Mississippi released her republication of Vera M. Pigee's autobiography, _The Struggle of Struggles_ (originally published in 1975) with an extensive introductory essay; annotations; and a timeline added.

She is the co-editor of _From Rights and Lives: The Evolution of the Black Freedom Struggle_, a collection of essays from a diverse set of scholars studying the continuities and ruptures between the black mass movements of the mid-twentieth century (namely the civil rights and the black power movements) and the current mass movement under the banner of Black Lives Matter (Vanderbilt University Press, 2024)

Research Statement

_Crossroads at Clarksdale_ (UNC Press, 2012) studies the civil rights movement in Coahoma County, Mississippi from 1951 to the present. Three points of inquiry frame this work. First, I reinstate women's roles as paramount to the successful maneuverings at the local level and I recast their own understanding of those roles in their own terms, using the trope of motherhood and motherwork to reinterpret leadership. Second, I track the movement of organizations in the local area, analyzing those that passed through and those that stayed in order to better understand when and how organizations succeed in their goals given the multitude of variables the members confronted, and I utilize my concept of flexible loyalties to describe how local people consciously used the groups to fulfill their own needs, Finally I reassess the difference that community activism and group cooperation made for the success of social programs. By ending the project at the eve of the millennium, I question the conventional periodization of the civil rights movement as has been memorialized by political, social and cultural historians. How do we calculate the success of a movement?

My current research includes work on children and youth during the mass civil rights movement with critical analysis on the effects of activism. Working on this project has sharpened my interests in epistemology and ethics.

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Funded Research

Andrew Carnegie Foundation Fellow, 2021-2023.

Edmond J. Safra Fellow-in-Residence, Center for Ethics, 2021.

George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation Fellowship, 2021.

American Philosophical Society, Franklin Research Grant, 2021.

Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowship, American Council of Learned Societies, 2015.

Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, 2010-2011.
Charles Warren Center Fellow, Harvard University, 2007-2008.
Du Bois-Mandela-Rodney Fellowship, Center for Afroamerican and African Studies, University of Michigan, 2004-2005.
Albert J. Beveridge Research Grant, American Historical Association, 2003.
Huggins-Quarles Award, Organization of American Historians, 2002.
John F. Kennedy Foundation Research Grant, 2002.
Summer Research Fellowship, I Advanced Study of Religion Institute at Yale, Pew Charitable Trusts, 2002.
Moody Grant-in-aid, The Lyndon Baines Johnson Foundation, 2001.

Background

Education and Training

Year	Degree	Institution
2004	PhD	Yale University
2000	MA	Yale University
1999	MA	Yale University
1997	MA	University of London
1996	BA	University of Essex

Postdoctoral/Other Training

DuBois-Mandela-Rodney Postdoctoral Fellow

University of Michigan, Center for African and AfroAmerican Studies

2004-2005

Honors and Awards

Selected Honors and Awards:

Andrew Carnegie Foundation Fellow. 2021-2023.

Edmond J. Safra Fellow-in-Residence, Center for Ethics, Harvard University. 2021.

George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation Fellowship. 2021.

American Philosophical Society, Franklin Research Grant. 2021.

A. Elizabeth Taylor Prize for “Historians and Ethics: Finding Anne Moody,” the best article in southern women’s history from the Southern Association for Women Historians. 2021.

President’s Award for Excellence in Faculty Governance. 2021.

Letitia Woods Brown Memorial Article Prize from the Association of Black Women Historians for “Historians and Ethics: Finding Anne Moody.” 2020.

Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan (DIAP) Community Award for Faculty. 2020.

Finalist: The QBR 2016 Wheatley Book Award in Nonfiction. 2016.

Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowship, American Council of Learned Societies. 2015.

The Barrett Hazeltine Citations for Excellence in Teaching, Guidance and Support by 2015 Senior Class. 2015.

William G. McLoughlin Award for Excellence in Teaching in the Social Sciences. 2014

Lillian Smith Book Award. 2013.

Berkshire Conference of Women Historians First Book Prize for 2012. 2013.

Woodrow Wilson National Fellow. 2010-2011.

Charles Warren Center Fellow, Harvard University. 2007-2008.

Franklin L. Riley Dissertation Prize, Mississippi Historical Society. 2006.

C. Vann Woodward Dissertation Prize, Southern Historical Association. 2005.

Du Bois-Mandela-Rodney Fellowship, Center for Afroamerican and African Studies, University of Michigan. 2004-2005.

Sylvia Ardyn Boone Prize for work in African American culture & history, Yale University. 2004.

Albert J. Beveridge Research Grant, American Historical Association. 2003.

Huggins-Quarles Award, Organization of American Historians. 2002.

Researchers@Brown

Researchers@Brown

Francoise N Hamlin

Associate Professor

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