Kimberly Hill is a historian of Black Internationalism and American Christianity. She has taught at the University of Texas at Dallas since 2014 with a previous appointment at Del Mar College. Her first book, A Higher Mission: The Careers of Alonzo and Althea Brown Edmiston in Central Africa, analyzes how HBCUs and industrial education influenced African American Presbyterians serving as missionaries in colonial Congo. Hill earned her Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2008 and studied in South Africa through study abroad programs. She continues to research black missionaries by focusing on the efforts of YMCA and YWCA activists during the Long Civil Rights Movement.

Seminar: Race & Colonialism, Mission, & World Christianity

February 17-18 (Monday-Tuesday)

By analyzing the contributions that residents of the Global South have made to the expansion of the Church, World Christianity research inspires innovative academic trajectories for historians of colonial eras. Participants in this seminar will consider historians’ strategies for analyzing the actions and interests of people who were often silenced in the records of European imperial governments. Our discussions will focus on scholarship about people from the African Diaspora who experienced colonization during the early twentieth century.