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Alice Baumgartner is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Southern California, affiliated with the Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences. She specializes in 19th century U.S. history, U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, and transnational slavery studies.
Education:
- Ph.D. in History, Yale University
- M.Phil in Latin American Studies, University of Oxford
Her research examines how enslaved people's flight to Mexico reshaped U.S. sectional tensions and explores sovereignty contests in the Borderlands. She has contributed to scholarship on violence, citizenship, and colonialism through works like South to Freedom (2020), which reinterprets the Civil War's origins through a transnational lens.
Recent publications focus on fugitive slave legal struggles, colonial cartography's role in border enforcement, and violence in defining citizenship. Her work synthesizes themes of transnational law, border mobility, and slavery's geopolitical impacts.
Scientific Awards:
- New York Times Editors’ Choice (2020)
- Los Angeles Times Book Award Finalist (2020)
Grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Mellon Foundation, and Princeton Institute for Advanced Study have supported her research. Her teaching at USC covers 19th century North American history, emphasizing cross-border dynamics and slavery's legacies.
