Micah LynnGraduate Student
Micah Lynn studies the intersection of racial violence, memory, and place in the American South and its borderlands. He aims to use oral history to extend the study of lynching further into the 20th century. By doing so, Micah hopes to address the following questions: How do Black and white people remember past incidents of racial violence and reproduce stories of that violence? How do they fit these memories into an understanding of their community and place? How do their memories of certain cases of violence relate to other incidents (or suspected incidents) of violence? As he starts the PhD program to answer these questions, Micah will draw from his previous research on racial violence in Mississippi and Kentucky. Hailing from central Kentucky, Micah earned his B.A. in History at the University of Southern Mississippi, Gulf Park, and his M.A. in History at the University of Kentucky.
Education
B.A. University of Southern Mississippi
M.A. University of Kentucky
Research Interests
History of the American South
African American History
Violence and Extremism
Historical Memory
Place and Landscape
