Talitha L. LeFlouria is the Lisa Smith Discovery Associate Professor of African and African-American Studies at the University of Virginia and author of the multi award-winning Chained in Silence: Black Women and Convict Labor in the New South (University of North Carolina Press, 2015). She is a scholar of African American history and a specialist on Black women, mass incarceration, and the legacies of American slavery. Dr. LeFlouria has received several prestigious awards for her research, including a 2018-2020 Andrew Carnegie Fellowship from the Carnegie Corporation of New York.
