Joshua R. Strayhorn, Ph.D.

I am happy to announce that my article, "and no sich is to open their mouths in dis place": James City and the Legacies of Communal Radicalism" has been published in the Spring issue of the North Carolina Historical Review!

@VanLathan newyorker.com/magazine/2020/…

Afro pessimism?

@HistoryEdProf @adillahunt_ Thank you!

@jstray_hist @adillahunt_ Congratulations, Dr. Strayhorn!

I am thrilled to announce that I will be the 2025-2026 Civil War Era Postdoctoral Fellow at the Richards Center at Penn State University!

@ProfMcInnis Thank you so much!

Congratulations, Josh! I’m looking forward to reading and teaching it.

@haleeranae Congratulations!

@JerryGersh1 Thanks, Dr. Gershenhorn!

@jstray_hist Congratulations!!

@NewBlackMan Thank you !!

@jstray_hist Congrats!

@profcsanders Thank you !!

@jstray_hist Congratulations!!!

@adillahunt_ Thanks bro !!

@jstray_hist Yes sirrrrrrr! Congrats bro!

@PhenomenalTiana Thank you !

@jstray_hist Congratulations, Josh!

@ProfMcInnis @DukeU Congratulations!!

Excited to share a major life update: About 1 year ago, I was anxiously putting the final touches on my tenure portfolio. Today I'm delighted to share that I've been promoted to the rank of ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR WITH TENURE @DukeU!!! #Blessed #Grateful #TENURED #AssociateProfessor

@JTRoane @ISGRJRutgers Congratulations!

Our Black ecologies lab was recognized with honorable mention for the public humanities award. Grateful to Teona Williams, Justin Hosbey, Jayson Porter and Danielle Purifoy for deep collaboration and honored to receive this recognition chcinetwork.org/news/public-hu… @ISGRJRutgers

@DrHenryWashJr not too much 😭

Oh boy. I am happy to finally say, on March 31, I defended my dissertation, “Contested Liberty: Fugitive Women & the Shadow of Re-Enslavement and Displacement in Revolutionary Virginia.” Tears of joy! More to come later. 🥹❤️😉 If you tryna help me celebrate, CashApp: $AXM1992

Last weekend, I had the pleasure of launching the digital exhibit for a project I have been working on for the past year with the James City Historical Society in Eastern North Carolina. I am happy to share the site with you all. createdequal.omeka.net

@JTRoane @NYUpress Congratulations!!

Excited to work with @NYUpress again for my next book. Black Anarchic.

Super excited about this — thanks @PrincetonSPIA for the shoutout. You can read our paper, open access, here: journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.10… @abussing5 @PolityalsBeruf

The History Department at the University of Massachusetts Boston seeks applicants for a tenure-track assistant professor in the history of race in Colonial and Revolutionary America, beginning September 1, 2025. employmentopportunities.umb.edu/boston/en-us/j…

📚@DukeU faculty @NewBlackMan and @tracie_canada, and @DukeHistoryDept alum @josh_strayhorn visited the International Civil Rights Center & Museum (@sitinmuseum) with @DukeMBB @DukeTrinity