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Katrina Thompson Moore, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
History

Courses Taught

United States History from 1865; United States History to 1865; Slavery in Film and Popular Culture; Black Atlantic Women; Introduction to African American Studies; Contemporary Black America; History of African Americans in Mass Media; American Slavery; Spirituals, Motown and Hip Hop: African American Social History and Music; Jesuit, SLU, and Slavery; Civil Rights in America; American Slavery and Atlantic World (Graduate Course)

Education

Ph.D., History Department, State University of New York at Stony Brook, New York, December 2007

M.A., History Department, State University of New York at Stony Brook, New York, December 2002

B.A., Political Science and History, Our Lady of the Lake University, San Antonio, Texas, December 2000

Research Interests

19th and 20th century African American and Women History and North American Popular Culture and Media

Publications and Media Placements

Forthcoming:

Invited Chapter Contributor to the peer reviewed The Cambridge Companion to Folk Music (Cambridge University Press), Publication Fall 2024

Books

Ring Shout, Wheel About: The Racial Politics of Music and Dance in North American Slavery (Urbana, Chicago, & Springfield: University of Illinois Press, 2014).

Articles and Book Chapters

Guest Editor, Special Issue: “Black Women, The Body and Dance” Journal of American Culture, Vol. 46, Issue 2, June 2023.

"Introduction: Black women dancing through time and space" Journal of American Culture, Vol. 46, Issue 2, June 2023.

“The Wonder Years in Black and White: A Comparative Analysis,” Popular Culture Studies             Journal, Vol. 11, Number 1 (Spring 2023).

“Backstage: ‘White Folks do as they please, and the darkies do as they can,’” chapter in anthology Music in Black American Life, 1600-1945, (Urbana, Chicago, & Springfield: University of Illinois Press, 2022).

“The Wench: Black Women in Antebellum Minstrel Show and Popular Culture,” The Journal of American Culture, Volume 44, Issue 4 (December 2021).

"The Fallacy of the Nut P****: Cross-dressing, Black Comedy, and Women," Popular Culture Studies Journal, Special Edition on Black Popular Culture, September 2020.

"Taking care a white babies, that what I do": The Help and Americans Obsession with the Mammy" chapter in When White Write Black, Claire Garcia and Vershawn Young, editors. (Palgrave Macmillan Press, 2014).

"Some were wild, some were soft, some were tame, and some were fiery": Female Dancers, Male Explorers, and the Sexualization of Blackness, 1600-1900," Black Women, Gender, and Families, Volume 6, Number 2(Fall 2012).

"Distorted Images in Travel Literature: An Exploration of the Subjugation of Blackness in the Western World" chapter in America and the Black Body: Identity Politics in Print and Visual Culture, Carol E. Henderson, editor (Madison and Teaneck: FDU Press, 2009), 55-74.

Documentaries

Contributor documentary #idancemystory-German based documentary that examines Dance history and culture throughout Western Europe, North America and West Africa. 2022.

Consultant and contributor to Battle of St. Louis (House of Thunder) Documentary 2021 (Winner of Best Documentary at the ST Louis Filmmakers Showcase, 2021).

Encyclopedia Entries

"Black Face," International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 2nd Edition, Editor in Chief, William A. Darity. Macmillan Reference USA/Thomson Gale Publishers.

"Roscoe Lewis," African American National Biography, edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham. Harvard University and Oxford University Press.

"Snoop Doggy Dogg," African American National Biography, edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham. Harvard University and Oxford University Press.

"D. J. Kool Herc" African American National Biography, edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham. Harvard University and Oxford University Press.

Book Review

Sandra Jean Graham, Spirituals and Birth of a Black Entertainment Industry, Urbana, Chicago, & Springfield: University of Illinois Press, 2018, The World of Music Journal.

Samuel A. Floyd, Jr., Melanie L. Zeck, and Guthrie P. Ramsey, Jr., The Transformation of Black Music: The Rhythms , the Songs, and the Ships of the African Diaspora, Oxford University Press, 2017, Journal of the American Musicological Society, 71.2, Summer 2019.

Tim Suereth, Ferguson: America's Breaking Point, Andrew Miller Publisher, 2015, American Book Review, Volume 37, Number 3, 2016.

Christopher J. Smith, The Creolization of American Culture: William Sidney Mount and the Roots of Blackface Minstrelsy, Urbana, Chicago, and Springfield: University of Illinois Press, 2013. History: Review of New Books, November 2014.

Robert Nowatzki, Representing African Americans in Transatlantic Abolitionism and Blackface Minstrelsy, Baton Rouge, La: Louisiana State University Press, 2010. The Journal of the Civil War Era 2 (June, 2012):265-267.

Mia Bay, Waldo Martin, Deborah Gray White, Freedom on My Mind: A History of African American with Documents, Manuscript Review, Bedford/St. Martin's.

Daina Ramey Berry, Swing the Sickle for the Harvest is Ripe": Gender and Slavery in Antebellum Georgia. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007. Journal of African American History 93 (2008): 575.

Invited Lectures:

“Slavery, Jesuits, and the Catholic Church,” Interviewed for Richard A. Chaifetz School of Business Core Program, August 28, 2023.

“Equity and Decision Making for Deans,” Guest Speaker, Council of College of Arts and Sciences Seminar for Deans, St. Louis, Missouri, August 22, 2023

“Balance: Being a Graduate Student and a Teaching Assistant,” Panel Moderator, Saint Louis University, August 16, 2023

“Inclusive Teaching: Practical Advice for Graduate Teaching Assistants,” Saint Louis University, August 15, 2023  

“What is Juneteenth?” Invited Lecture for Juneteenth event, Nestle Purina Petcare Company, St. Louis MO, June 15, 2023

“Juneteenth: Yesterday and Today” Invited Keynote Lecture, East Central College, Union, MO, June 2023.

“Equity-Minded Faculty Search/Hiring Practices” Chairs Working Group, Invited Panelist, May 2023.

Media 

Contributing writer to Women’s Leadership Network, Beyond Housing Community Organization, Newsletter, August 2023.

Interviewed by New York Post, “ Dem Senate hopeful Trudy Busch Valentine uses her former plantation for campaigning,”  May 3, 2023.

Interviewed by The University News, “Award-winning journalist and Race-Card Project founder Norris delivers speech,” April 11, 2023.

Interviewed by SLU Career Services Podcast: The Launch Pod “Black History Month, February 28, 2023.

Interviewed State of the Arts (SOTA): News and Events from SLU Visual and Performing Arts,”I Love The Arts” February 2023.


Honors and Awards

  • Donald G. Brennan Humanitarian Award, Urban League and Saint Louis University  Dr Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Tribute, January 2024.
  • Michael  Railey Award, Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Saint Louis University, School of Medicine, 2020
  • Society of African American Studies, Ernest Calloway Excellence in Teaching Award, 2015
  • Choice Magazine, Outstanding Academic Title for 2014, January 2015 issue
  • Jesuits Recognition "Most Impactful Person," SLU, 2013
  • Recipient of the President's Research Fund, SLU, 2009
  • Rutgers University Race and Gender Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2013-2014
  • Provost Faculty Research Leave, Saint Louis University, Fall 2010
  • Frederick Douglass Institute for African and African American Studies, Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Rochester, 2010-2011, Declined.
  • Erskine A. Peters Fellow, Department of Africana Studies, University of Notre Dame, 2006-2007.
  • Northeast Consortium for Faculty Diversity Visiting Dissertation Scholar Program, Allegheny College, 2006-2007, Declined.
  • Northeast Consortium for Faculty Diversity Visiting Dissertation Scholar Program, Monmouth University, 2006-2007, Declined.
  • W. Burghardt Turner Fellowship, State University of New York at Stony Brook, 2001-2005.