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Allison Berg

JMC Prof. Allison Berg, photographed outside in front of a brick background. She is wearing blue glasses and a blue patterned scarf.

Allison Berg

Associate Professor

Case Hall Room N353

Biography

Professor Berg's research focuses on the history and literature of social movements with an emphasis on race, class, gender and sexuality. Her publications include the book Mothering the Race: Women's Narratives of Reproduction, 1890-1930, which examines how early twentieth century African American and white women writers defined and deployed motherhood as a political identity central to racial uplift, feminist, birth control and eugenics movements. She has also published many articles on to

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Publications

Allison Berg published an article titled "Trauma and Testimony in Black Women's Civil Rights Memoirs: The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Women Who Started It, Warriors Don't Cry, and From the Mississippi Delta," in the fall 2009 volume of the Journal of Women's History.