Candice Harrison

Candice Harrison is an Associate Professor at the University of San Francisco, where she has been a full-time faculty member since Fall 2008. She holds a PhD from Emory University and currently serves as Director of the African American Studies program. Her research focuses on colonial and 19th-century U.S. history, economic/labor dynamics, African American history, American popular culture, and comparative race and slavery in the Atlantic World. Recently, she received the Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship to support her book manuscript, Democratizing the Market: Place, Power and Politics in Early Philadelphia, which examines social and political dynamics in early Philadelphia’s street markets. Dr. Harrison’s teaching spans these research areas, emphasizing interdisciplinary approaches to historical analysis.