Beverly A. Bunch-Lyons, Associate Professor (Ph.D., Miami University at Ohio, 1995)

Areas of Specialization: African American, U.S. Women, Oral History

Current Research: Juke Joints in the South

Recent Publications:
•“Claude McKay,” Encyclopedia of African American History, Leslie Alexander and Walter Rucker, Editors (ABC-Clio), forthcoming. December 2009.

•Beverly Bunch-Lyons, 1st author, Nakeina Douglas, 2nd author. “Tinner Hill: From Protest to Progress,” Eds., Kevern Verney and Lee Sartain, in The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People: A Centenary Assessment, forthcoming, University of Arkansas Press, October 2009.

•Beverly Bunch-Lyons, 1st author,  April Few, 2nd author.  “Writing as Resistance in the Narrative Discourse of Black Women,” The International Journal of the Humanities vol. 5 no. 3 (Spring 2007): 213-220.

• Contested Terrain: African-American Women Migrate from the South to Cincinnati, Ohio 1900-1950 (Routledge Press, 2002).

• “A Novel Approach: Using Fiction Written by African American Women to Teach Black Women’s History,” Journal of American History 86 (March 2000): 1700-1708.

• “The Migration of African American Women to Cincinnati, Ohio: An Oral History.” Magazine of History 2, no. 3 (Spring 1997): 9-14.