Emily Clark
Professor
Areas of Expertise
Biography
Emily Clark is a historian of early America and the Atlantic world with a specialization in New Orleans and the French Caribbean. Her research interests include race, gender, religion and the place of New Orleans and the French Caribbean in early American history.
Education
Tulane University
Accomplishments
Outstanding Faculty Research Award
2014
Tulane University
Distinguished Book Award
2010
History of Women Religious Conference, Awarded June 2010 to Masterless Mistresses: The New Orleans Ursulines and the Development of a New World Society: 1727-1834
Julia Cherry Spruill Prize
2008
Southern Association for Women Historians, Awarded to Masterless Mistresses: The New Orleans Ursulines and the Development of a New World Society: 1727-1834
Media Appearances
Quadroons for Beginners: Discussing the Suppressed and Sexualized History of Free Women of Color with Author Emily Clark
“As a historian, I knew that mixed race women and interracial families were everywhere in America from its earliest days. And I knew that most of the free women of color in antebellum New Orleans bore no resemblance to the quadroons of myth.” - Dr. Emily Clark
Galvez Papers
Our contributor has a document from 1779 signed by the Governor of Spanish colonial Louisiana that emancipated Agnes Mathieu from slavery. What was so special about Agnes? Most freedom papers from the time bear only the notarization of a local clerk. Elyse Luray discovers Galvez's pivotal role in America's fight for freedom and in a romantic story of our contributor's past.
