Biography
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)
The Remarkable Life of Reed Peggram (Viking Books at Penguin Random House, 2026)