LaShawn Harris

LaShawn Harris is an awarding winning historian and former Managing and Book Review Editor for the Journal of African American History (JAAH). Harris’s scholarly essays have appeared in Journal of Social History, Journal of Urban History, and SOULS: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society. Her first monograph Sex Workers, Psychics, and Number Runners: Black Women in New York City’s Underground Economy was published by the University of Illinois Press in 2016. In 2017, Sex Worker, Psychics, and Numbers Runners won the Organization of American Historians (OAH) Darlene Clark Hine award (best book in African American women’s and gender history) and the Philip Taft Labor Prize from The Labor and Working-Class History Association (LAWCHA). Harris is a Distinguished Lecturer for the Organization of American Historians and her work has been featured in popular media outlets including TV-One, Glamour Magazine, Huffington Post, Elle, Vice, Newsy, and The History Channel. Follow her on IG: @bronxhistorian08