Scholars@Duke
Adriane D. Lentz-Smith

Adriane D. Lentz-Smith

Associate Professor of History
History
adriane.lentz-smith@duke.edu
Box 90719, Durham, NC 27708-0719
Dept of History, Classroom Bldg, Box 90719, Durham, NC 27708-0719
Office hours By appointment  

Selected Publications

Forum on Barbara D. Savage’s Merze Tate: The Global Odyssey of a Black Woman Scholar

Journal Article Cooperation and Conflict · January 1, 2025 Merze Tate (1905–1996) was a prolific academic who taught in the fields of diplomatic history and International Relations (IR) at Howard University in Washington D.C. After training as a teacher, Tate acquired graduate degrees from Oxford (1935) and Harvar ... Full text Cite

The VISITOR'S CORNER with Judy Richardson

Journal Article Modern American History · November 1, 2024 Full text Cite

Fighting Jim Crow in a World of Empire

Chapter · January 1, 2022 Race was never far from conversations about empire. In 1911 an international collection of ethnologists, social scientists, and reformers gathered at the University of London to discuss the problem of the color line. Had the Universal Races Congress functi ... Full text Cite

On the experiences of black historians

Journal Article Modern American History · March 1, 2021 Full text Cite

The unbearable whiteness of grand strategy

Chapter · January 1, 2021 This chapter explores grand strategy as an intellectual and cultural project by considering its willful unseeing of race as a political project. To ignore race is to misapprehend how power works in the United States and how domestic formulations of subject ... Full text Cite

Indispensable histories

Journal Article Oregon Historical Quarterly · June 1, 2017 Full text Cite

Passports to adventure: African Americans and the US security project

Journal Article American Quarterly · September 1, 2016 Featured Publication Full text Cite

Reid’s Obama Blunder and What it Means

Other History News Network · January 2010 Link to item Cite