Our Team

On this page you can view the university staff profile pages and research interests of the American Studies team.

Dr Althea Legal-Miller

Dr Althea Legal-Miller joined the American Studies (AS) programme as a Lecturer in American History and Culture in January 2017.

Dr Legal-Miller received her BA in American Studies with Year Abroad (University of California, Berkeley), MA in Contemporary Cinema Cultures and PhD in American Studies all from King’s College London.  She has taught American Visual Culture at King’s College London and was a Teaching Fellow in African American Studies at UCL - Institute of the Americas from 2013-2016.  She has received a number of prestigious scholarships and awards, including a 2016 AHRC British Research Council Fellowship at the John W. Kluge Center in the Library of Congress (Washington, DC), and the Mae C. King Distinguished Paper Award on Women, Gender and Black Politics from the Association for the Study of Black Women in Politics (ASBWP).

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