Rebecca Brueckmann

Education & Professional History

Freie Universitat Berlin, PhD

Organizations & Scholarly Affiliations

2025-2027: ACM Academic Leadership Fellow.

African American history and transnational histories of the African Diaspora, the history of white supremacy, Southern history, gender history.

HIST 125: Roots and Resistance: Africa to the Civil War

HIST 126: Black Freedom: Reconstruction to #BlackLivesMatter

HIST 209: Slavery in the Atlantic World

HIST 217: Pirates, Rebels, Voodoo Queens: Black New Orleans

HIST 218: Black Women’s History

HIST 220: From Blackface to Blaxploitation: Black History and/in Film

HIST 228: Civil Rights and Black Power

HIST 230: Black Americans and the U.S. Civil War and Reconstruction

HIST 298: Junior Colloquium

Upcoming: HIST 305: Uncovering Black Histories: Carleton through the Midwest

Massive Resistance and Southern Womanhood: White Women, Class, and Segregation. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2021.

“Segregation.” In Racism in the United States, edited by Silvan Niedermeier, 291-310. Tuebingen: UVK, 2025.

“Toward an Intersectional History of White Supremacy: Segregationist Women in 20th Century U.S. History.” In Shifting Perspectives on Intersectionality, edited by Grit Grigoleit-Richter and Florian Zitzelsberger, 29-54. Freiburg: Verlag Herder, 2024.

“The Nineteenth-Century Roots of Black Feminism.” Picturing Black History: Photographs and Stories That Changed the World (blog), March 14, 2024.

“Racism and Segregation.” In Handbook on Politics in the USA, edited by Christian Lammert et al., 373-384. Berlin: Springer, 2023.

“Pointing Fingers? Massive Resistance and German Reactions to the Little Rock Crisis, 1957.” The Southern Quarterly 58, No. 3 (2023): 34-54.

“The Historically Entangled Roots of #MeToo and the Black Freedom Movement.” In All Of Us: Difference, Identity, Representation, eds. Simon Dickel and Rebecca Racine Ramershoven. 189-211. Berlin: edition assemblage, 2022.

“Intersectionality.” In Fat Studies: A Glossary, eds. Anja Herrmann et al., 157-159. Bielefeld: transcript, 2022.

“Racism.” In Liberalism: A Handbook, ed. Michael G. Festl. 573-580. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler Verlag, 2021.

“Citizens’ Councils, Conservatism, and White Supremacy in Louisiana, 1964-1972.” European Journal of American Studies 14 (Winter 2019), Special Issue “Race Matters: 1968 as a Living Legacy in the Black Freedom Movement”: 1-24.

“Precious” and “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” In Encyclopedia of Racism in American Film, ed. Salvador J. Murguia. 433-437 and 468-472. London: Rowman & Littlefield, 2018.

“’Work Mostly Done by Men’: Cornelia Dabney Tucker and Female Grassroots Activism in Massive Resistance in Charleston, 1950-1963.” The South Carolina Historical Magazine 117 (Spring 2017): 96-120.