Faculty

Nikki Taylor
Assistant Professor
Fields: African American, Urban, 19th Century

Phone: 556-2561
Email: Nikki.taylor@uc.edu
Office: 320C McMicken Hall

Dr. Taylor received her BA from the University of Pennsylvania and her MA and PhD(2001) degrees from Duke University, where she also received a certificate in Women’s Studies. She has held several fellowships including Fulbright, Woodrow Wilson, and Social Science Research Fellowships. Dr. Taylor joined the Department of History in 2005. Her current research projects include a biography of Peter H. Clark who was a 19th century activist and educator, and a history of the Jezebel stereotype as it has been applied to African American women. In her free time, Professor Taylor volunteers as a Court Appointed Special Advocate for kids in the foster care system in Hamilton County.

Selected Courses:
African American History
African American Urban History
African Americans and the State (Honors)
African American Women’s History
American History

Selected Publications:
“African-Americans’ Strive for Educational Self-Determination in Cincinnati Before 1873" in Black Urban Community: From Dusk To Dawn, ed. Lewis Randolph and Gayle Tate. Palgrave Macmillan 2006.

Frontiers of Freedom: Cincinnati’s Black Community, 1802-1868 (Ohio University Press, 2005)