Search for people, departments, or email addresses.

« Back To Search Results

  Quin'Nita Cobbins-Modica

Quin'Nita Cobbins-Modica

Assistant Professor

 

Humanities Division

History Department

Assistant Professor

Faculty

African American / Black Studies
Women's Studies
Activism
US History
Race
Digital Humanities

Stevenson College Academic Building
280

Spring 2025: Wednesdays from 9:30a-11:30a or by appointment (email in advance to schedule a Zoom or in-person meeting). Zoom link on Canvas.

Stevenson Academic Services

Ph.D, University of Washington, 2018

M.A., Universitiy of Georgia, 2012

B.A., Fisk University, 2010

African American History

African American History in the American West

Black Women’s History

Black women’s history

Activism and resistance
Black Freedom Movement

Pacific Northwest & U.S. West History

Digital humanities

Public history and memory

Washington State Historical Society John McLendon, Jr. Award for best article 

Woodrow Wilson Foundation Career Adjunct Fellowship

University of Washington Distinguished Dissertation Award                                                                          

Blackpast.org encyclopedic entries (abbreviated list): "E. June Smith," "Dorothy Hollingsworth," "Emmett L. Till," "Freddie Mae Gautier," "Crispus Attucks," "Patricia E. Bath," "Daisy Tibbs Dawson," "Herbert Lee," "Addie Fletcher Booth" (2013-2023)

"Alice Presto" and "Christia V. Adair," Women and Social Movements Digital History Project (2017)

"Transformation of a Community," in Seattle on the Spot: The Photographs of Al Smith, Seattle: Museum of History & Industry (2017)

"Finding Peace Across the Ocean: Daisy Tibbs Dawson and the Rebuilding of Hiroshima," Columbia: The Magazine of the Pacific Northwest (2019)

"Let Us...Take Our Place in Public Affairs:" Black Women's Political Activism in the Pacific Northwest, 1870-1920," Western Historical Quarterly (Fall 2024)

121A: African American History to 1877
121B: African American History from 1877 to the present
80X: The History of the Modern Civil Rights Movement

If you have the proper permissions, you can edit this entry

This campus directory is the property of the University of California at Santa Cruz. To protect the privacy of individuals listed herein, in accordance with the State of California Information Practices Act, this directory may not be used, rented, distributed, or sold for commercial purposes. For more details, please see the university guidelines for assuring privacy of personal information in mailing lists and telephone directories. If you have any questions please contact the ITS Support Center.