Rebecca Brückmann is assistant professor for the history of North America in its transcultural context at Ruhr-University Bochum. Brückmann holds a Magistra Artium in History, Sociology, and Political Science from Humboldt-Universität Berlin and a Ph.D. in Modern History from the John-F.-Kennedy-Institute for North American Studies of Freie Universität Berlin. Her research interests include Southern history, Black history, the history of borderlands, and gender history. She has published articles on the history of the Black Freedom Struggle in the United States, racialization in popular culture, and the history of white supremacy. Her monograph, Massive Resistance Southern Womanhood: White Women, Class, and Segregation (University of Georgia Press) offers a comparative sociocultural and spatial history of white supremacist women who were active in segregationist grassroots activism in Little Rock, New Orleans, and Charleston. She is currently working on the history of spatial and social creolization in the late 18th and the 19th century US Southwest as well as on the transnational history of the Black Freedom Struggle.

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