Assistant Professor
Department of History
Queens Campus
St. John's Hall, Room 244-J
8000 Utopia Parkway
Queens, NY 11439
Phone: (718) 990-8187
Fax: (718) 990-2644
herbine@stjohns.edu
Educational Background
Ph.D., 2007, Columbia University, History
M.A., 2003, Columbia University, History
A.B., 1999, Harvard College, History & Literature, magna
cum laude
Profile
Elizabeth Herbin-Triant joined the history faculty at St. John’s
University in 2008 after finishing her Ph.D. at Columbia University
and a postdoctoral fellowship at Yale University. Her
research interests include agrarianism in the American South,
African-American migration within the U.S. and emigration to
Liberia, the Harlem Renaissance, and segregationist ideas in the
U.S. and South Africa. Her book manuscript is entitled A
“Great Rural Civilization” for White Southerners: Clarence Poe,
Agrarianism, and Rural Segregationist Ideology in the American
South.