Talitha LeFlouria

2018 Andrew Carnegie Fellows

Talitha LeFlouria

Lisa Smith Discovery Associate Professor in African and African-American Studies, University of Virginia

Talitha LeFlouria is the Lisa Smith Discovery Associate Professor in African and African-American Studies at the University of Virginia. She is a scholar of African American history, specializing in mass incarceration; modern slavery; race and medicine; and black women in America. She is the author of Chained in Silence: Black Women and Convict Labor in the New South.

Publications:

Project Title: The Search for Jane Crow: Black Women and Mass Incarceration in America.

Website:

http://woodson.as.virginia.edu/people/profile/tll4y