Eric Ashley Hairston, associate professor of English and of Law & Humanities, recently contributed to The Social History of Crime and Punishment in America, published by Sage.
Hairston contributed the major historical and analytical entry on African-Americans, as well as entries on The Fugitive Slave Act of 1793, The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, and the Chinese Exclusion Act.
Hairston’s next work, The Ebony Column: Classics, Civilization, and the African-American Reclamation of the West, is slated for publication in early 2013 by The University of Tennessee Press.