Dr Michell Chresfield

Office hours:

• Wednesday 12-1pm
• Thursdays 11am-12pm

• PhD in History, Vanderbilt University (Nashville, USA)
• MA in History, Vanderbilt University (Nashville, USA)
• BA in American Studies, University of Notre Dame (Notre Dame, USA) 

I grew up splitting my time between Alabama and New York City, so I consider myself a city girl who is a southerner at heart. Prior to joining UoB I was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Pittsburgh, a liberal arts college in the United States. I joined the staff of UoB in September 2017.

• American History, 1890- 2000
• U.S. Gender and Sexuality 

Century U.S. History
African American History
Gender and Sexuality
Racial and Ethnic Relations in the U.S.

Find out more - our PhD History  page has information about doctoral research at the University of Birmingham.

My current research examines how Americans of Native, Black, and White descent have used social science, medicine, and the law to negotiate multiracial identities during the regime of Jim Crow. I am currently working on a book based on this research titled, "What Lies Between: Social Science, Medicine and the Prehistory of Multiracial America."