Dr. Eckelmann Berghel is Associate Professor and Director of Africana Studies. She specializes in the histories of children and youth, American race relations, Modern U.S. and transnational history. Her current manuscript in progress, Freedom’s Little Lights: The World of Children and Teenagers in the U.S. and Abroad during the Civil Rights Era, examines the nexus of teenage youth, civil rights, and Cold War politics during the late 1950s and 1960s.