Irma Watkins-Owens

Irma Watkins-Owens

Associate Professor Emeritus of History
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Office: Lincoln Center 414D
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  • 1988 - PhD, Michigan

  • 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. A shorter project examines African Caribbean Immigrants in Port Cities of the Nineteenth Century.

    A member of the Department of African and African American Studies, Dr. Watkins-Owens teaches courses in African American history, women's history, Atlantic migration, and Being and Becoming Black in the Atlantic World. She will teach a new interdisciplinary seminar, Harlem Century, in the Fall of 2014.

  • Undergraduate Courses:

    AALP-1100 - African American History I

    AALP-2100 - African American History II

    AALP-3030 - African American Women

    AALV-4650 - Social Welfare and Society

    AFAM-3037 - Being and Becoming Black

    AFAM-3630 - Harlem Century

    Graduate Courses:

    HSGA-5953 - African American Women's History

    HSGA-5954 - Black Migration in the Atlantic World