Associate Professor of History
California State University, Long Beach
1250 Bellflower Blvd.
Long Beach, CA 90840
562 985-2408 | Fax: 562 985-5431
dabel@csulb.edu | Office: FO2-202
African American History
Women’s History
Early US History
Urban History
Civil War and Reconstruction
University of California, Los Angeles - Ph.D. in History
University of California, Los Angeles - M.A. in History
University of California, Berkeley - B.A. in History and Political Science
A Respectable Woman: The Public Riles of African American Women in Nineteenth-Century New York City, New York University Press, forthcoming 2008.
“’A superior colored man …and a Scotch woman:’ Interracial Marriages in New York City, 1850-1870” in the International Social Science Review, Fall/Winter (2005).
""I have Gone Quietly to Work for the Support of My Three Children": African-American Mothers in New York City, 1827-1877." Afro-Americans in New York Life and History 27, no. 2 (2003).
“African-American Women and Household Composition in New York City, 1827-1877” in Black Cultures and Race Relations edited by James L. Conyers. Chicago: Burnham Inc., Publishers, 2002.
""My Ma Went to Work Early Every Mornin'": Color, Gender, and Occupation in New Orleans, 1840-1860." Louisiana History 41, no. 2 (2000).
Outstanding Faculty Teaching Award, California State University, Long Beach (2007)
W.M. Keck Foundation Fellowship, Huntington Research Library, San Marino, California (2003)
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, Post-Doctoral Fellowship, New-York Historical Society
HISTORY 172:
Early American History
HISTORY 301:
Methodology of History
HISTORY 486:
African American History
HISTORY 501 :
Theories and Methodology of History
HISTORY 595:
Directed Readings
HISTORY 697 :
Directed Reseach
HISTORY 678 :
Thesis Preparation
