Owen james hyman, Ph.d.

Instructional Assistant Professor of African American Studies

Owen James Hyman is a historian of race, science, and the environment and an Instructional Assistant Professor in the African American Studies Department at the University of Mississippi. His first book project, Cut-Over Color Lines: Black Forests in the Jim Crow South, argues the South's culture of Jim Crow segregation, disfranchisement, and violence evolved through multiple reorganizations of the region's forests. As an Isom Fellow, his research will examine how land ownership helped African American women resist patterns of violence rooted in sexual assault, white supremacy, and class conflict in the face of radical environmental change.

Gender Studies -Related Research Interests: Slavery, segregation, and sexual violence; African American women's land ownership; African American women in business