Selena Sanderfer

Jessica R. Pliley and Zoe Trodd, of the Gilder Lehrman Center’s Modern Slavery Working Group join Tom Thurston on this episode of Slavery and Its Legacies. 

Selena Sanderfer holds a PhD in History from Vanderbilt University and is currently an Assistant Professor at Western Kentucky University where she has been teaching since 2011. She previously served as a Visiting Minority Faculty Fellow at Western Kentucky University(2010-2011) and as an instructor at Vanderbilt University (2007). Her research interests focus mainly on southern African Americans and Black Nationalism. She is currently pursuing research related to her dissertation, which examines the participation of black lower class southerners in movements supporting territorial separatism from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century. For future research she plans to continue studying the experiences of black southerners and in particular investigate the emergence and legacy of all black towns and communities. She enjoys teaching courses on the history of the African Diaspora and American history and has taught courses in African history, American history and Western Civilization as well as special topic courses in African American history, the Atlantic World and the history of slavery.

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