Alice Baumgartner

Pronouns She / Her / Hers
Email albaumga@usc.edu
Research & Practice Areas
19th Century United States, U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, Slavery, Transnational History
Biography
Alice Baumgartner is an assistant professor of history at the University of Southern California, where she teaches courses on 19th century North America. She received a Ph.D. in History from Yale University and an M.Phil in Latin American Studies from the University of Oxford. Her first book, South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to Civil War, published in 2020, was named a New York Times Editors’ Choice, and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award. Her articles have appeared in the Journal of American History, the Journal of Southern History, and the Western Historical Quarterly, among others.