Kim Gallon

Promoted to Associate Professor
Department of History
kgallon@purdue.edu

Kim Gallon completed a Ph.D. in history at the University of Pennsylvania, a master’s degree in library and information science at Drexel University, and a bachelor’s degree in English at Rutgers-Camden University. Dr. Gallon also holds graduate certificates in African studies, Africana studies, and Women’s and Gender Studies. She teaches modern African history, a course on the colonial histories of sub-Saharan African countries. 

Gallon serves as the Founder and Director of the Black Press Research Collective and is an ongoing visiting scholar at the Center for Africana Studies at Johns Hopkins University. Her research focuses on discourses and representations of sexuality and gender in the early 20th century black press. Gallon was awarded a NEH Digital Humanities Level 1 Start-Up Grant for her contributions to digitizing scholarship on the black press. 

Gallon’s work has been published in History Compass, Journalism History, Transformations, Pennsylvania History, and Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography. The “Popular Romance Project” website also featured her writing on black popular culture and romance. She is also in the process of publishing We Are Becoming a Tabloid Race: The Politics of Gender and Sexuality in the Black Press, 1925-1945.