<h2>Shirley Portwood</h2><p></p><table border="0" width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td valign="top"> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td valign="top"> <table bgcolor="#000000" cellspacing="3"> <tr> <td bgcolor="#000000" valign="top"><img border="0" alt="Shirley Portwood" src="/artsandsciences/historicalstudies/img/PORTWOOD.gif" /></td> </tr> </table> </td> <td> <table border="0" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td><strong>Shirley Portwood</strong><br />Professor<br /><br />African Americans, U.S.<br />Office Phone: 618-650-3962<br /><br />Location: Peck Hall, Rm. 1225<br /> E-mail: <a href="mailto:sportwo@siue.edu">sportwo@siue.edu</a></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr></table><p></p><h3>Education</h3><p>Ph.D., History, Washington University in Saint Louis</p><h3>Teaching Fields</h3><p>African American History, History of American Women, Social History, United States History</p><h3>Research Fields</h3><p>African American Community History, African Americans in Illinois, African American Women</p><h3>Recent Publications</h3><p>“School Segregation in Southern Illinois: The Alton School Case, 1897-1908.” Illinois History Teacher, January 2005.</p><p>“African American Women’s Autobiographies: Images of Self, Memories of Their Mothers’ Gardens,” in Transnational Transgressions: African Women, Struggle, and Transformation in Global Perspective, eds., M. Bahati Kuumba and Monica M. White.</p><p>Portwood, Shirley J. Tell Us a Story: An African American Family in the Heartland. Southern Illinois University Press. 2000.</p><p>"'We Lift Our Voices in Thunder Tones': African American Race Men and Race Women and Community Agency in Southern Illinois, 1895-1910." Journal of Urban History, Vol. 26, No. 6 (September 2000), pp.730-758.</p><p>"In Search of My Great-Great Grandparents: Mapping Seven Generations of Family History." Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, Vol. 92, No. 2 (Summer 1999), pp. 95-118.</p><p></p><p>"The Alton School Case and African American Community Consciousness, 1897-1908." Illinois Historical Journal, Vol. 91, No. 1 (Spring 1998), pp. 2-20.</p><p>Carlson, Shirley J. "Black Ideals of Womanhood in the Late Victorian Era." Journal of Negro History, Vol. 78, No. 2 (Spring 1992), pp. 61-73.</p><p><a href="/artsandsciences/historicalstudies/facstaff.shtml">Back to Faculty/Staff Directory</a></p>