Ethelene Whitmire
Credentials: Professor
Position title: Director of Graduate Studies
Email: ewhitmire@wisc.edu
Education
PhD – University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
MLS – Rutgers University
BA – Rutgers University
Short Biography
Ethelene Whitmire is a professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison affiliated with the departments of German, Nordic, and Slavic, and Gender & Women’s Studies. She received an American-Scandinavian Foundation fellowship and a Lois Roth Endowment grant to support this project. She was also a 2016-2017 Fulbright Scholar and visiting professor at the University of Copenhagen’s Center for Transnational American Studies
Interests
African American Studies; Scandinavian Studies, 20th Century United States History; Transnational African American Experience
Books
Regina Anderson Andrews, Harlem Renaissance Librarian (University of Illinois Press, 2014)
Books in Progress
The Remarkable Life of Reed Peggram (under contract with Viking Books at Penguin Random House)