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Jeff Forret is a Professor of History at Lamar University, specializing in slavery, the South, and nineteenth-century American history. He has held distinguished roles such as the Dr. Ralph and Edna Wooster Professor of History (2022-2024) and LU Distinguished Faculty Research Fellow (2016-2021). His accolades include the University Scholar Award (2016) and the Distinguished Faculty Lecturer honor (2020).
- Ph.D., University of Delaware, 2003
- M.A., University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 1998
- B.A., St. Ambrose University, 1995
Dr. Forret’s research focuses on slavery, racial violence, legal history, and the intersection of Indigenous history with the Dred Scott case. His work explores the commodification of enslaved people, community dynamics, and comparative slavery studies.
His recent publications include the monograph The Price They Paid: Slavery, Shipwrecks, and Reparations Before the Civil War (2024) and Williams' Gang: A Notorious Slave Trader and His Cargo of Black Convicts (2020), which won the AASLH Leadership in History Award. He also co-edited anthologies such as Southern Scoundrels (2021) and New Directions in Slavery Studies (2015).
- Frederick Douglass Book Prize (2016)
- Texas Institute of Letters Carr P. Collins Award for Best Book of Nonfiction
- AASLH Leadership in History Award (Large Press, 2021)
- PROSE Awards honorable mention (2016)
- Harriet Tubman Book Prize finalist
Dr. Forret serves as Graduate Director for the Department of History and has secured grants like the State Historical Society of Iowa Research Grant for his ongoing work on Indigenous history and the Dred Scott case.
