Elsa Barkley Brown

Elsa Barkley Brown is an author and associate professor in the Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Maryland. Her primary interests are in African American political culture, with an emphasis on gender. Professor Barkley Brown is co-editor of the two-volume Major Problems in African-American History (Houghton Mifflin, 2000) and the two-volume Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia (Carlson Publishing, 1993).