Royal Holloway, University of London
Department Member, History
Royal Holloway, University of London
About
I teach modern American history in the Department of History at Royal Holloway, University of London.
Email: Dawn-Marie.Gibson@rhul.ac.uk
My first book, 'A History of the Nation of Islam: Race, Islam and the Quest for Freedom' was published by Praeger in April 2012.
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I am currently working on the following two book projects:
[Co-authored by Jamillah Karim]'Women of the Nation: Between Black Protest and Orthodox Islam' (New York: New York University Press, 2013).
“Unashamedly Black and Unapologetically Christian: Trinity United Church of Christ” (Under contract with the University of Arkansas Press)
Recent & forthcoming conference / seminar papers include:
"In Our Own Voices: Modest Models Inc" Gender and History in the Americas Seminar Series, Institute for Historical Research, 3 June 2013
"Virtue Today Magazine" Women in Magazines Conference, Kingston University, London, 22-23 June 2012.
“Unashamedly Black and Unapologetically Christian: Barack Obama and the Jeremiah Wright controversy”. Black Church Activism and Contested Multiculturalism in Europe, North America, and South Africa. Birkbeck, University of London,29th - 30th May 2012.
“African American women and the Nation of Islam”, Work in Progress Seminar, History Department, University of Sussex, 3 May 2012.
"Encountering the Nation of Islam in 1960s America", Society for the History of Women in the Americas (SHAW) annual conference, Brunel University, 14 March 2012.
"Nation Building: African American women's experiences and work in Elijah Muhammad's Nation of Islam" American History Seminar Series, Institute for Historical Research, 23 February 2012.
“Censure and support as the Nation of Islam prepares for change” Dutch Association for the Academic Study of Religion,(The Netherlands), 4-5 November 2011.
"Oral history and the Nation of Islam" Oral History Network of Ireland (OHNI). Kilkenny Castle, Ireland, 16-17 September 2011.
