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PROFESSOR HINE

Dr. Darlene Clark Hine is John A. Hannah Professor Distinguished Professor History. She is past president of the Organization of American Historians (OAH) for the year 2001-2002. She is also the Vice-President of the Southern Historical Association for the year 2002-2003.

Professor Darlene Clark Hine has edited and written widely on African American history, particularly on black women in the nursing profession and in the Middle West. Most recently she co-edited, with Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham and Leon Litwack The Harvard Guide to African-American History (2001). She is co-author with, William C. Hine and Stanley Harrold of the text book The African-American Odyssey, Volumes I & II (New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 2000), second edition, Volumes I & II (2002). Her works include: A Question of Manhood: A Reader in U.S. Black Men's History and Masculinity (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999), edited with Earnestine Jenkins and Crossing Boundaries: Comparative History of Black People in Diaspora (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999), edited with Jacqueline McLeod. Hine co-authored with Kathleen Thompson, A Shining Thread of Hope: The History of Black Women in America (New York: Broadway Books, 1998). She co-edited Black Women in America: A Historical Encyclopedia, with Elsa Barkley Brown and Rosalyn Terborg-Penn; "We Specialize in the Wholly Impossible": A Reader in Black Women's History, was co-edited with Wilma King and Linda Reed; and More Than Chattel: Black Women and Slavery in the Americas, co-edited with David Barry Gaspar.

Her monograph and essay collection include Black Victory: The Rise and Fall of the White Primary in Texas; Hine Sight: Black Women and the Re-Construction of America History; Black Women in White: Racial Conflict and Cooperation in the Nursing Profession, 1890-1950; and Speak Truth to Power: Black Professional Class in United States History.

Hine has also appeared in, and served as a consultant for a number of PBS documentaries, including "Shattering the Silences: Minority Professors Break into the Ivory Tower", and Eyes on the Prize. Hine's current project is African Americans in the Medical and Legal Professions, 1868-1950.