Kami Fletcher, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of History
kfletcher@albright.edu
610-921-7821
B.A. – University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff
MPA – University of Arkansas at Little Rock
MA – Texas Woman’s University
Ph.D. – Morgan State University
Areas of Expertise
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Death & Dying
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African American Cemeteries
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Black Undertakers
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The Southern Plantation
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Women’s Studies
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19th and 20th Century U.S.
Areas of Research
Fletcher, Kami & Allan Amanik. Editors. Till Death Do Us Part: American Ethnic Cemeteries as Borders Uncrossed. University Press of Mississippi, April 2020.
Fletcher, Kami. “Real Business: Maryland’s First Black Cemetery Journey’s into the Enterprise of Death, 1807-1920.” Thanatological Studies, Number 7 (April 2015): 53-85.
Fletcher, Kami. “When Did the n-word Become about Freedom of Speech? Understanding the Effects of When the n-word is Spoken in the classroom.” In Postcolonial Composition Pedagogy: Using the Culture of Marginalized Students to Teach Writing, edited by Monique Akassi, 267-76, Ann Arbor, Michigan: Robbie Dean Press, 2011.
UNDER CONTRACT & FORTHCOMING:
Fletcher, Kami “Long Live Chill #LLC: Exploring Grief, Memorial & Ritual in African American R.I.P. T-shirt Culture.” In A Reflexive Study of the Rituals Associated with Death and Dying, edited by Kalliopi Christoduoulaki and Aubrey Thamann (forthcoming with Berghahn Books 2020).
Fletcher, Kami & Ashley Towle. Editors. Southern Cemeteries: Imprints of Southern Culture. University of Georgia Press (forthcoming 2021).
Courses Taught
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African American History I & II
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African American Great Migration
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U.S. History since 1865
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U.S. Social History