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Crystal Lynn Webster, PhD

Media

[Feature] Meet four Black scholars leading innovative research in the Faculty of Arts

Interview, CBC News Kids
New Books Network Interview
Library Company of Philadelphia Fireside Chat Book Talk
Gilder Lehrman Center Research Talk
https://www.tpr.org/show/the-source/2020-02-19/19th-century-black-children-faced-threats-obstacles-in-pursuit-of-an-education?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1582234936
Texas Public Radio, The Source Interview

Clements Library Bookworm Talk

Stephen Ricks and Childhood in the Antebellum North, 90 Second Narratives Podcast

[Podcast] Beyond the Boundaries of Childhood, New Books Network

Public History Writing

[Essay] Enslaved Women’s Sexual Health: Reproductive Rights as Resistance, Black Perspectives

[Essay] Unmarked and Unburied: the Unsettling of Black Death, Black Perspectives

[Op-Ed] Child welfare systems have long harmed Black children like Ma’Khia Bryant, Washington Post

[Op-Ed] White Americans have weaponized the idea of girlhood, Washington Post

[Quoted] ‘Backlash to racial progress’: For some, Trump’s strong showing is a sign that bigotry prevails, USA Today

[News Report] UTSA Professor, Students Want to Continue Police Brutality Discussions in Fall Semester, Spectrum News

[Op-Ed] Black Children Have Always Known State Violence, Washington Post

[Essay] The History of Black Girls and the Field of Black Girlhood Studies: At the Forefront of Academic Scholarship, The American Historian

[Interview] Roundtable: The History of Childhood and Youth, The Junto

[Archival Research] Decoding Black Masculinity: Massachusetts Historical Society Blog

Women Also Know History

History of Black Girlhood Network

One of my favorite interviews to date! Check out this fantastic episode of Freedom Now Hosted by Dr. Gerald Horne featuring Dr. Blair Kelley and myself. New arrivals Last week I made my (reluctant) return to the conference scene. OAH was filled with many laughs and hugs. I’m back! This is what a TENURED Associate Professor looks like!!! Just received the letter from the President today. 33 years old, with two beautiful kids, an amazing partner, and now TENURE! 😍 Research trip photo dump. Currently making my way across the Northeast to the Schomburg, the CT state library, and the Beinecke via my favorite mode of transit 🚆 So honored that my article titled “Hanging Pretty Girls” was one of the most read for 2022. This was one of the hardest pieces I’ve ever had to write, both due to its content and in the midst of the pandemic. I felt so exhausted after I never even promoted it. I can see the fatigue on my face in the pic of me in my Texas home office. So it means so much that people care so deeply about the stories of these Black children and what went they went through in the jails and prisons of early America. More to come in my forthcoming book: Condemned. So honored to receive my book award from the @librarycompany at their annual banquet. It was a wonderful night with impressive speakers and guests. Lucky to have my love join me. And I even met the library’s founder, Benjamin Franklin. I am honored and over the moon to receive the First Book Award from the Library Company of Philadelphia, where I spent so many months living and researching Black children in Philadelphia. LCP’s Mellon dissertation fellowship enabled me to devote an entire year to research and writing. This award is so special to me because the institution has been so important for my career. Thank you @librarycompany My copy arrived! Thrilled to contribute to this fantastic volume on the 1977 national women’s conference, shedding light on Black women’s unique positions and activism.

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