Assistant Professor
Department of History
St. John's Hall, Room 244-J
Queens Campus
Phone: (718) 990-8187
Fax: (718) 990-2644
herbine@stjohns.edu
Educational Background
Ph.D., 2007, History, Columbia University
M.A., 2003, History, Columbia University
A.B., 1999, History & Literature, Harvard College
Profile
Elizabeth Herbin joined the history faculty at St. John’s
University in 2008 after finishing her PhD 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. She is working on a book manuscript,
Racism in the Agrarian South: Small Farmers and Conflict over Land
and Labor, which explores the connections between Southern racism
and the focus on small farming in the region.