Professor

Darlene Clark Hine

Michigan State University
Historian; Educator
Area
Humanities and Arts
Specialty
History
Elected
2006
Professor Darlene Clark Hine is a member of the Board of Trustees and a Professor of African American Studies and History at Northwestern University. She is a scholar of African American women's history and has opened new areas of inquiry and approaches to questions of gender, race, and class. In addition, Professor Hine has examined the nuances of rape and its broader psychological affects on black women have been influential. Some of her awards and accomplishments include, the Anna Julia Cooper Award for Distinguished Scholarship, Dartmouth Award, The Steffin Award, Avery Citizenship Award, Zora Neal Hurston-Paul Robeson Award, Letitia Woods Brown Memorial Anthology Prize, and Distinguished Black Woman Award. She has edited compilations of research materials, such as the Oxford University Press 2nd edition of Black Women in America, 3 volumes (2005).
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