Talitha L. LeFlouria

Talitha L. LeFlouria is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Texas at Austin and holds the prestigious Mastin Gentry White Professorship in Southern History. She earned her Ph.D. in US History from Howard University and has previously served as Assistant Professor at Florida Atlantic University and Lisa Smith Discovery Associate Professor at the University of Virginia. Her scholarly work focuses on African American women's history, mass incarceration, and labor exploitation in the post-Civil War South.

• Major Awards:
  • Darlene Clark Hine Award (2016)
  • Philip Taft Labor History Award (2016)
  • Carnegie Corporation Andrew Carnegie Fellowship

Her groundbreaking research has been featured in The Atlantic, The Washington Post, and PBS documentaries like Slavery by Another Name. She teaches courses on African American women's history, slavery legacies, and the origins of the carceral state.