Kali Nicole Gross

Kali Nicole Gross is associate professor of history and director of Africana studies at Drexel University. Her research focuses on crime, race, gender, and sexuality in the United States. She is author of Colored Amazons: Crime, Violence, and Black Women in the City of Brotherly Love, 1880-1910 (2006), and is currently writing a book on the murder of a young mulatto named Wakefield Gaines, a crime that rocked Philadelphia in 1887.

Lecture topics:

• Black Female Criminals in Philadelphia, 1880-1910
• The Murder and Dismemberment of Wakefield Gaines

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