- Professor Emerita
- Email: erferguson@uri.edu
Research
- African-American history
- Black women
- African diaspora in the Americas
Education
- Ph.D., U.S. History, Indiana University, Bloomington, June 1997
- M.A., U.S. History, Indiana University, 1989
- B.A., Anthropology/European History, Richmond College (CUNY) 1974
Selected Publications
- Catherine Higgs, Barbara A. Moss and Earline Rae Ferguson, eds. Stepping Forward: Black Women in Africa and the Americas (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2002).
- A Community Affair: Black Club Women’s Work in Indianapolis, 1880-1930 (in revision, University of Illinois Press).