Ashley Howard is Assistant Professor of African American Studies at the University of Iowa. Her research interests include African Americans in the Midwest; the intersection between race, class, and gender; and the global history of racial violence. Her book, Midwest Unrest: 1960s Urban Rebellions and the Black Freedom Movement, analyzes uprisings grounded in the way race, class, gender, and region played critical and overlapping roles in defining resistance to racialized oppression.

Her work has appeared in The Chronicle of Higher Education, BBC World News Hour, Al Jazeera, Financial Times, Washington Post and NPR. Her article, “Then the Burnings Began,” is the winner of the 2018 James L. Sellers Memorial Prize.