Leslie Harris is Associate Professor of History at Emory University in Atlanta. Her career as an historian and teacher has focused on complicating the ideas we all hold about the history of African Americans in the United States; and finding ways to communicate these new ideas to the general public. Her first book, In the Shadow of Slavery, challenged the prevailing view of slavery as a phenomenon of the southern United States, with little impact or importance in the northern U.S. She is also principal investigator of the New Orleans After Katrina project.
Leslie Harris
