Anna-Lisa Cox, is the recipient of numerous awards for her research,
including the National Endowment for the Humanities Younger Scholars
Award, the Gilder Lehrman Foundation Fellowship, and the Pew Younger
Scholars Fellowship. She received her M.Phil. in social anthropology
from the University of Cambridge, and her Ph.D. in American history
from the University of Illinois. She is an active historian, writer,
and lecturer on the history of race relations in the nineteenth-century
Midwest. Anna-Lisa is currently a Non-Resident Fellow at Harvard's
W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research
where she is working on her book Founding Freedom: African
Americans on the Antebellum Frontier.
