Christopher Lehman
Company: St. Cloud State University
Position: Professor, Ethnic, Gender and Women's Studies
Areas of Expertise
- African American Studies
- St. Cloud’s African American Community
Publications & Accomplishments
- Lehman, C. P. (2007) The Colored Cartoon: Black Representation in American Animated Short Films, 1907-1954. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press.
- Lehman, C. P. (Summer 2019). “Black Cloud: The Struggles of St. Cloud’s African American Community, 1880-1920.” Minnesota History, 234-243.
- Lehman, C. P. (Summer 2019). “West Edwards Days: African Americans in Territorial Edmond.” The Chronicles of Oklahoma, 174-191.
- Lehman, C. P. (2019). Slavery’s Reach: Southern Slaveholders in the North Star State. St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press.
- Lehman, C. P. (2024). It Took Courage: Eliza Winston's Quest for Freedom. St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press.
Education
Ph. D. in African-American/Black Studies from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Biography
Christopher P. Lehman is a professor in the Social Sciences Department at St. Cloud State University. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and he has been a visiting fellow at Harvard University’s Hutchins Institute for African and African American Research. His articles have appeared in Minnesota History and The Chronicles of Oklahoma. In 2020 his book Slavery’s Reach: Southern Slaveholders in the North Star State won the Minnesota Book Award in the “Minnesota Nonfiction” category. In 2025 his book It Took Courage: Eliza Winston's Quest for Freedom was a finalist in that same category.
