Quin'Nita Cobbins-Modica

User Quin'Nita Cobbins-Modica

User Assistant Professor

Humanities Division

Assistant Professor

Faculty

Stevenson College Academic Building
280

Fall 2025: By appointment only (email in advance)

Stevenson Academic Services

Ph.D, University of Washington, 2018

M.A., Universitiy of Georgia, 2012

B.A., Fisk University, 2010

African American History

African American History in the American West

Black Women’s History

Black women’s history

Activism and resistance
Black Freedom Movement

Pacific Northwest & U.S. West History

Digital humanities

Public history and memory

Western Association of Women Historians Judith Lee Ridge Prize for best article (2024)
Woodrow Wilson Foundation Career Adjunct Fellowship (2020)
Washington State Historical Society John McLendon, Jr. Award for best article (2020)

University of Washington Distinguished Dissertation Award (2018)                                                                        

Blackpast.org encyclopedic entries (abbreviated list): "E. June Smith," "Dorothy Hollingsworth," "Emmett L. Till," "Freddie Mae Gautier," "Crispus Attucks," "Patricia E. Bath," "Daisy Tibbs Dawson," "Herbert Lee," "Addie Fletcher Booth" (2013-2023)

"Alice Presto" and "Christia V. Adair," Women and Social Movements Digital History Project (2017)

"Transformation of a Community," in Seattle on the Spot: The Photographs of Al Smith, Seattle: Museum of History & Industry (2017)

"Finding Peace Across the Ocean: Daisy Tibbs Dawson and the Rebuilding of Hiroshima," Columbia: The Magazine of the Pacific Northwest (2019)

"Let Us...Take Our Place in Public Affairs:" Black Women's Political Activism in the Pacific Northwest, 1870-1920," Western Historical Quarterly (Fall 2024)

Last modified: Oct 15, 2025