Professor of History
Office: 103 Willingham Hall
Email: sfranklin@una.edu
Phone: 256.765.5774

Profile

Sarah Franklin is a Professor of History, specializing in Latin America, slavery, and gender.  She received her B.A. from Auburn University and her Ph.D. from Florida State University. She is the author of Women and Slavery in Nineteenth-Century Colonial Cuba (Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2012). Her current project is an examination of women and slavery in the Americas and is under contract to Routledge Press.  She has been a member of the faculty at UNA since 2010.

Education

Ph.D., History, Florida State University (2006)
M.A., History, Florida State University (2003)
B.A., History, magna cum laude, Auburn University (1999)

Recent Courses Taught

ON CAMPUS:

HI 201/202                            U.S. History to/since 1877
HI 346                                   Latin American Colonial History
HI 347                                   Latin American History since 1824
HI 438/538                            Caribbean History
HI 462/562                            History of Mexico
HI 611                                   Seminar: Slavery in the Americas

ONLINE:

HI 201                                   U.S. History to/from 1877 (both Quality Matters Certified)
HI 346                                   Latin American Colonial History
HI 347                                   Latin American History since 1824
HI 390                                   Slavery in the Americas
HI 438/538                            Caribbean History
HI 462/562                            History of Mexico
HI 611                                   Seminar: Slavery in the Americas
HI 611                                   Seminar: Gender in the Americas

Selected Publications

Women and Slavery in the Americas, under contract to Routledge Press.

Women and Slavery in Nineteenth-Century Colonial Cuba. Rochester (University of Rochester Press, 2012)

Honors and Awards

Lawrence J. Nelson Outstanding Teaching Award, University of North Alabama, 2017.
Academic Affairs Award for Outstanding Scholarship/Research, University of North Alabama, 2013.
American Fellowship, Summer/Short-Term Research Publication Grant, American Association of University Women, 2009–2010.