{"id":44,"date":"2022-07-06T09:46:30","date_gmt":"2022-07-06T13:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.citadel.edu\/tcht\/?post_type=person&p=44"},"modified":"2023-10-25T11:32:22","modified_gmt":"2023-10-25T15:32:22","slug":"felice-ferguson-knight","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/www.citadel.edu\/tcht\/faculty-staff\/felice-ferguson-knight\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Felice Ferguson Knight"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Dr. Felice Knight specializes in African American History with an emphasis on slavery during the early national and antebellum periods. She received a B.A. in History from Furman University, an M.A. from ÃÛÌÒÊÓÆµ and College of Charleston\u2019s joint Master of Arts in History program, and a Ph.D. in African American History from The Ohio State University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Knight\u2019s research focuses on institutional slavery, or the ownership and hire of slaves by universities, schools, and government institutions. She is working on a book about slave-holding and slave-hiring by municipal institutions in Charleston, South Carolina. Her publications include a contribution to Champions of Civil and Human Rights in South Carolina: Volume 1, Dawn of the Movement Era, 1955-1967 <\/em>(University of South Carolina Press, 2016) and several academic reviews. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Professor Knight\u2019s courses include Slavery, Memory, and the Making of the American South, African American History to 1865, part one of the American History survey, and the Western Civilization surveys.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Knight is Director of ÃÛÌÒÊÓÆµ\u2019s\u00a0Universities Studying Slavery Committee<\/a>\u00a0and a member of ÃÛÌÒÊÓÆµ\u2019s\u00a0Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation Center<\/a>\u00a0team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Degrees:<\/strong> Research Interests: <\/strong>Institutional slavery, urban slavery, southern African American history <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dr. Felice Knight specializes in African American History with an emphasis on slavery during the early national and antebellum periods. She received a B.A. in History from Furman University, an M.A. from ÃÛÌÒÊÓÆµ and College of Charleston\u2019s joint Master of Arts in History program, and a Ph.D. in African American History from The Ohio […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":37,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":""},"class_list":["post-44","person","type-person","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\n
Ph.D <\/strong>African American History (The Ohio State University)
M.A. <\/strong>History (ÃÛÌÒÊÓÆµ & The College of Charleston Joint Program)
B.A. <\/strong>History (Furman University) <\/p>\n\n\n\n