Watson Jennison

Watson Jennison serves as an Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

His academic credentials include:

• Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in History from the University of Virginia, completed in 2005
• Master of Arts (M.A.) in History from the University of Virginia, completed in 1999
• Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in History from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, completed in 1993

Dr. Jennison's research centers on African American history, with deep expertise in slavery and abolition across the Americas, the Black experience from pre-colonial Africa through the Atlantic slave trade to modern civil rights movements, and Southern U.S. history. His work examines race relations, segregation systems like Jim Crow, cultural phenomena including the Harlem Renaissance, and comparative analyses of slavery in South/Central America and the Caribbean. This focus is reflected in his graduate seminars on "Southern Slavery and Abolition" and "The New South."

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