Tiwanna M. Simpson
Assistant Professor


237C Himes Hall
578-3106
tsimpson@lsu.edu

COURSES TAUGHT: United States to 1865; African Americans to 1877; History of the American Slave Trade; Africans and Slavery in Louisiana; Southern Slavery to 1820
CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS:  African society in the early South; the Black Atlantic; African Slave Trade
INTERESTED IN DIRECTING THESES AND DISSERTATIONS ON:  Early African American history

BRIEF VITA

Education:  B.A. The University of Virginia; M.A., Ph.D. 2002, The Ohio State University

Awards and Honors:  

The David Library of the American Revolution, 2000

The John Carter Brown Library, 2000

University of Notre Dame, Erskine Peters Dissertation Fellowship 2000-2001

LSU Manship Grant

LSU Council on Research Grant

LSU Faculty Research Grant

Book:  Africans in Early Georgia, 1732-1815 (book manuscript in progress)