Alyssa Lopez
Assistant Professor
Education:
Ph.D. - Michigan State University
Area(s) of Expertise:
Alyssa Lopez is a scholar of African American history, film history and culture, and urban history. Her book, Reel Freedom: Black Film Culture in Early Twentieth-Century New York City, is forthcoming with Temple University Press.
Dr. Lopez is also an associate editor for Gotham: A Blog for Scholars of New York City History. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming inThe Journal of African American History, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History,The Routledge Companion to American Film History, Essays in History, Black Perspectives, Women Film Pioneers Project, and Picturing Black History.
Before coming to Providence College, she earned her Ph.D. at Michigan State University while a King-Chávez-Parks Future-Faculty-Fellow. Originally from Queens, New York, she earned her B.A. from Queens College, where she was a Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellow.
