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Thu 02 Sep - Sun 05 Sep, 2004
Country/Region: USA
George Mason University Biography:
Lois E. Horton is professor of sociology at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology and Department of American Studies at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. She is a member of the Scholarly Advisory Board at the National Underground Railroad and Freedom Center, Cincinnati, Ohio. Professor Horton is also on the Advisory Board at the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University. She is a research associate for the Afro-American Communities Project at the National Museum of American History at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC. Professor Horton has co-authored numerous works with James Horton, including In Hope of Liberty: Culture, Community and Protest Among Northern Free Blacks, 1700-1860; A History of the African American People; and Black Bostonians: Family Life and Community Struggle in the Antebellum North. Her most recently co-authored book with James Horton is entitled Hard Road to Freedom: The Story of African America, which will be published in 2001. Professor Horton received her Ph.D. in social welfare at The Florence Heller Graduate School for Advanced Studies in Social Welfare, Brandeis University, Massachusetts.
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