Talitha L. LeFlouria

Talitha L. LeFlouria, Ph.D. is an associate professor of history and the Mastin Gentry White Fellow in Southern History at The University of Texas at Austin. She is the award-winning author of Chained in Silence: Black Women and Convict Labor in the New South, which received honors from the Organization of American Historians, the Association of Black Women Historians, the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, and others.

Dr. LeFlouria earned her Ph.D. in U.S. history from Howard University and has held positions with the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, the Frederick Douglass National Historic Site, Florida Atlantic University, and the University of Virginia. She is recognized as one of the nation’s leading scholars on the history of Black women, mass incarceration, and the enduring legacy of American slavery.

Her work has been featured by The Washington Post, The Atlantic, Vox, The Root, and Ms., and she has appeared on NPR, C-SPAN, and the Smithsonian Channel documentary One Thousand Years of Slavery. An Andrew Carnegie Fellow, LeFlouria is also the author of Searching for Jane Crow: Black Women and Mass Incarceration in America from the Auction Block to the Cell Block.

Learn more at Talitha L. LeFlouria’s official website.