Irma Watkins-Owens Associate Professor of History, Director of African American Studies at Lincoln Center Office Location: Lowenstein Building 414D Phone: (212) 636-6363 Email: watkinsowens@fordham.edu webpage | courses | Curriculum Vitae Research Interests Author of Blood Relations: Caribbean Immigrants and the Harlem Community, 1900-1930 (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996). She is currently working on a study of African American women, migration and community in New York City from 1898-1945. She serves on the Executive Board of the Immigration and Ethnic History Society as a member of the Program Committee. A member of the Department of African and African American Studies, Dr. Watkins-Owens serves as the department's Chair and teaches courses in American Pluralism, African American history, and on African American women and migration.