Beverly C. Tomek

Beverly C. (Scull) Tomek is an Associate Professor of History and Associate Provost for Curriculum and Student Achievement at the University of Houston-Victoria in Victoria, Texas. Her fields of study include antislavery, 19th and 20th century civil rights, American reform, African-American History, and social justice movements. She is on the editorial board of the journals "Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies" and the "Journal of the Early Republic" and the list serves for H-Net American Studies (H-AMSTDY) and H-Pennsylvania. She has also served as associate editor on a number of reference projects, including "Heritage of Freedom: Free People of Color in the Americas 1492-1900," (Facts on File), "The International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest: 1500 to Present," (Wiley- Blackwell Publishing), and "The Encyclopedia of American Social Movements," (M.E. Sharpe Inc.). Her articles include “The Invisible Force of Expectation: Angelina Grimke and the Dilemma of Self-Determination in the Early Women’s Movement,” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, forthcoming October 2020; “The Economization of Freedom: Abolitionists Versus Merchants in the Culture War that Destroyed Pennsylvania Hall,” Canadian Review of American Studies, 47(2) Summer 2017; “The Mythology of Post-Racial America: On the Shadowy Color Line in the Twenty-First Century,” Race in America: How a Pseudo-Scientific Concept Shaped Human Interaction, edited by Patricia Reid-Merritt, Praeger, 2016 (with Justin Bell); “‘Hanoi Jane’ in American Myth and Memory,” The Vietnam War in Popular Culture, edited by Ron Milan, ABC-CLIO, 2016; “How Relics of a ‘Legal Lynching’ Awakened the Public to the Importance of Free Expression in the Antebellum U.S.,” Amity Global History Review, September 2016; “A Stalking Horse for the Civil Rights Movement”: Head Start and the Legacy of the Freedom Schools The Southern Quarterly: A Journal of Arts & Letters in the South 52(1) Fall 2014; "The Communist International and the Dilemma of the American 'Negro Problem': The ​Limitations of The Black Belt Self-Determination Thesis" WorkingUSA: The Journal of Labor and Society December 2012; "Seeking 'an immutable pledge from the slave holding states': The Pennsylvania Abolition Society and Black Resettlement," Winter 2008, Pennsylvania History; and "'From motives of generosity, as well as self-preservation': Thomas Branagan, Colonization, and the Gradual Emancipation Movement," American Nineteenth Century History 6(2) June 2005, p. 121-148. Tomek earned her PhD at the University of Houston, her M.A. at Southwest Texas State University, and her B.A. at the University of Houston-Victoria. She can be reached at tomekb@uhv.edu or at beverly.tomek@gmail.com.