Brandi C. Brimmer
دانشیار · African American Social and Political History
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hillمعرفی
Brandi C. Brimmer is the Morehead-Cain Alumni Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Department of African, African American, and Diaspora Studies. Her work focuses on recovering marginalized voices from historical archives, particularly those of enslaved and free Black individuals in the American South.
Education:
- B.A., History, Spelman College
- M.A., African American Studies, University of California, Los Angeles
- Ph.D., U.S. History, University of California, Los Angeles
Research Interests:
- Slavery, emancipation, and Reconstruction
- Black women’s political thought and legal strategies
- African American marriage, family, and biography
- Archival methods and digital humanities applications
Key Research: Her book Claiming Union Widowhood (2020) examines Black women’s navigation of post-emancipation legal systems. She is currently writing The Other Douglass, exploring Black attorneys’ advocacy for veterans’ pensions. Her work has been supported by the National Humanities Center and Ford Foundation.
Awards:
- National Humanities Fellow (2020–21)
Grants & Collaborations: Collaborated with the Freedmen and Southern Society Project at the University of Maryland, College Park, and has held fellowships at the African American History, Culture, and Digital Humanities Project. Her research bridges legal history, gender studies, and post-emancipation social dynamics.
