P. Gabrielle Foreman

P. Gabrielle Foreman
OccupationHistorian
TitlePaterno Family Professor of American Literature and Professor of African American Studies and History
Academic background
Education
ThesisSentimental subversions: Reading, race, and sexuality in the nineteenth century (1992)
Academic work
DisciplineU.S. history
Sub-discipline19th-century U.S. history
Institutions
Websitepgabrielleforeman.com

Pier Gabrielle Foreman is an American literary historian.[1] As of 2025, she is the Paterno Family Professor of American Literature and Professor of African American Studies and History at the Pennsylvania State University.[1] Her research has focused on "race, reform and resistance" in the 19th-century United States.[2]

Foreman was a 2022 MacArthur Fellow.

Education and career

Foreman attended Amherst College (BA, in American Studies 1986) and obtained her PhD in Ethnic Studies in 1992 from the University of California, Berkeley.[1][2]

Foreman taught at Wayne State University from 1992 to 1994, and at Occidental College from 1994 to 2010. She was the Ned B. Allen chair of English at the University of Delaware from 2010 to 2019.[1] At the University of Delaware, Foreman was a founding faculty director of the Colored Conventions Project.

In 2022, Foreman was recognized as a MacArthur Fellow for "catalyzing inquiry into historic nineteenth-century collective Black organizing efforts through initiatives such as the Colored Conventions Project".[1]

At the Pennsylvania State University, Foreman was a co-founder of the Center for Black Digital Research, also called #DigBlk.[1] In 2024, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[3]

Publications

Books

  • Foreman, Pier Gabrielle (2009). Activist Sentiments: Reading Black Women in the Nineteenth Century. The new black studies series. Urbana Chicago: University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0-252-07664-0.
  • Foreman, Pier Gabrielle; Casey, Jim; Patterson, Sarah Lynn, eds. (2021). The Colored Conventions Movement: Black organizing in the nineteenth century. The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 978-1-4696-5427-0.[4][5][6][7]
  • Praise Songs for Dave the Potter: Art and Poetry for David Drake (2023)

Chapters

Articles

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f "P. Gabrielle Foreman". MacArthur Foundation. 2022-10-12. Retrieved 2025-03-03.
  2. ^ a b "P. Gabrielle Foreman '86 | Class of 2023 Honorees". Amherst College. Retrieved 2025-03-03.
  3. ^ "P. Gabrielle Foreman". American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 2025-03-02. Retrieved 2025-03-03.
  4. ^ Turner, Nicole Myers (September 2022). "The Colored Conventions Movement: Black Organizing in the Nineteenth Century ed. by P. Gabrielle Foreman et al". The Journal of the Civil War Era. 12 (3): 393–395. doi:10.1353/cwe.2022.0048. ISSN 2159-9807.
  5. ^ Santamarina, Xiomara (2023). "The Colored Conventions Movement: Black Organizing in the Nineteenth Century ed. by P. Gabrielle Foreman, Jim Casey, and Sarah Lynn Patterson". Early American Literature. 58 (1): 262–267. doi:10.1353/eal.2023.0020. ISSN 1534-147X.
  6. ^ Giesberg, Judith (March 2023). "The Colored Conventions Movement: Black Organizing in the Nineteenth Century ed. by Gabrielle Foreman, Jim Casey and Sarah Lynn Patterson". Civil War History. 69 (1): 108–110. doi:10.1353/cwh.2023.0002. ISSN 1533-6271.
  7. ^ Hall, Jonathan (2022-12-01). "The Colored Conventions Movement: Black Organizing in the Nineteenth Century. Edited by P. Gabrielle Foreman, Jim Casey, and Sarah Lynn Patterson". Journal of Social History. 56 (2): 496–498. doi:10.1093/jsh/shab076. ISSN 1527-1897.
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