Mark Mallory

Mark Mallory’s interdisciplinary research examines the role of racialized difference in Black Seminole diaspora history since the Second Seminole War, focusing on communities in the Texas-Coahuila borderland. Drawing on methodological approaches from Black and Native studies, Mallory’s research incorporates oral history accounts, songs, films, museum exhibits, children’s books, paintings, and other contemporary (mis)-representations of Black Seminole history to contextualize and unsettle the persistent illegibility experienced by Black Seminoles within contemporary neoliberal racial capitalism.

Mallory received his M.A. in history from the University of Louisiana in 2021 with concentrations in U.S. and European history. In addition to his PhD studies, he also currently serves as a volunteer oral historian with the Seminole Indian Scouts Cemetery Association and as a cataloguing intern with the Texas Archive of the Moving Image.

Chair: Dr. Angela Pulley Hudson