Tyina Steptoe
- Associate Professor, History
- Associate Professor, Applied Intercultural Arts Research - GIDP
- Member of the Graduate Faculty
Contact
- (520) 621-1586
- Cesar E Chavez Building, Rm. 319D
- Tucson, AZ 85721
- tsteptoe@arizona.edu
Degrees
- Ph.D. History
- University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
- “Dixie West: Race, Migration and the Color Lines in Jim Crow Houston, 1915-1945”
- M.A. Afro-American Studies
- University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
- “‘If You Ever Go to Houston, You Better Walk Right’: The Houston Riot of 1917”
- B.A. History
- University of Texas, Austin, Texas, USA
- B.S. Radio-Television-Film
- University of Texas, Austin, Texas, USA
Work Experience
- University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona (2014 - Ongoing)
- University of Washington, Seattle, Washington (2008 - 2014)
Awards
- Ted and Shirley Taubeneck Superior Teaching Award
- Humanities Seminars Program, University of Arizona, Fall 2021
- Julia Ideson Award
- Friends of the Texas Room (Houston Metropolitan Research Center at the Houston Public Library), Fall 2017
- Kenneth Jackson Award for Best Book (North American)
- Urban History Association, Fall 2017
- W. Turrentine Jackson Book Prize
- Western History Association, Fall 2017
- 2015 Letitia Woods Article Prize (honorable mention)
- Association of Black Women Historians, Fall 2015
- 5. 2015 Elli Köngäs-Maranda Professional Prize (honorable mention)
- American Folklore Society, Fall 2015
- Summerlee Research Fellowship for the Study of Texas History
- Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University, Fall 2012
- Woodrow Wilson Career Enhancement Fellowship for Junior Faculty
- Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Fall 2011
- Comparative Ethnic Studies Essay Prize
- American Studies Association, Fall 2010
Interests
No activities entered.
Courses
2024-25 Courses
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Adv Studies in U.S. Hist
HIST 695A (Spring 2025) -
Senior Capstone
HIST 498 (Spring 2025) -
Dissertation
AIAR 920 (Fall 2024) -
United States: 1945 to Present
HIST 440 (Fall 2024)
2023-24 Courses
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U.S. 1918-1945: WW I/WW II
HIST 438 (Spring 2024) -
Independent Study
AIAR 699 (Fall 2023) -
Senior Capstone
HIST 498 (Fall 2023) -
United States: 1945 to Present
HIST 440 (Fall 2023)
2022-23 Courses
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U.S. 1918-1945: WW I/WW II
HIST 438 (Spring 2023) -
U.S.Society+Inst Snc1877
HIST 150C3 (Spring 2023)
2021-22 Courses
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Independent Study
AIAR 599 (Spring 2022) -
Independent Study
HIST 499 (Spring 2022) -
Senior Capstone
HIST 498 (Spring 2022) -
South Since Civil War
AFAS 348 (Spring 2022) -
South Since Civil War
HIST 348 (Spring 2022) -
Adv Studies in U.S. Hist
HIST 695A (Fall 2021) -
Music and Ethnic America, 1900
HIST 231 (Fall 2021) -
Practicum
AIAR 694 (Fall 2021) -
Thesis
HIST 910 (Fall 2021)
2020-21 Courses
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American Ethnic History
HIST 452 (Spring 2021) -
American Ethnic History
HIST 552 (Spring 2021) -
Independent Study
HIST 699 (Spring 2021) -
Thesis
HIST 910 (Spring 2021) -
United States: 1945 to Present
HIST 440 (Spring 2021) -
Thesis
HIST 910 (Fall 2020)
2019-20 Courses
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American Ethnic History
HIST 452 (Spring 2020) -
Research
HIST 900 (Spring 2020) -
Thesis
HIST 910 (Spring 2020) -
United States: 1945 to Present
HIST 440 (Spring 2020) -
Dissertation
HIST 920 (Fall 2019) -
Senior Capstone
HIST 498 (Fall 2019)
2018-19 Courses
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Independent Study
HIST 599 (Summer I 2019) -
American Ethnic History
HIST 452 (Spring 2019) -
American Ethnic History
HIST 552 (Spring 2019) -
Dissertation
HIST 920 (Spring 2019) -
Music and Ethnic America, 1900
HIST 231 (Spring 2019) -
Thesis
HIST 910 (Spring 2019) -
Dissertation
HIST 920 (Fall 2018) -
U.S.Society+Inst Snc1877
HIST 150C3 (Fall 2018) -
United States: 1945 to Present
HIST 440 (Fall 2018) -
United States: 1945 to Present
HIST 540 (Fall 2018)
2017-18 Courses
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Independent Study
HIST 599 (Summer I 2018) -
Dissertation
HIST 920 (Spring 2018) -
Senior Capstone
HIST 498 (Spring 2018) -
South Since Civil War
AFAS 348 (Spring 2018) -
South Since Civil War
HIST 348 (Spring 2018) -
Dissertation
HIST 920 (Fall 2017)
2016-17 Courses
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Dissertation
HIST 920 (Spring 2017) -
Music and Ethnic America, 1900
HIST 231 (Spring 2017) -
U S 1876-1919:Prog Era
HIST 437 (Spring 2017) -
U S 1876-1919:Prog Era
HIST 537 (Spring 2017) -
American Ethnic History
HIST 452 (Fall 2016) -
American Ethnic History
HIST 552 (Fall 2016) -
U.S.Society+Inst Snc1877
HIST 150C3 (Fall 2016)
2015-16 Courses
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Honors Thesis
HIST 498H (Spring 2016) -
Senior Capstone
HIST 498 (Spring 2016) -
South Since Civil War
AFAS 348 (Spring 2016) -
South Since Civil War
HIST 348 (Spring 2016)
Scholarly Contributions
Books
- Steptoe, T. (2016). "Houston Bound: Culture and Color in a Jim Crow City". Berkeley: University of California Press.
Chapters
- Steptoe, T. (2019). “Beyoncé’s Sonic Borderlands: Music and the Racial Geography of the Western South,”. In The Lemonade Reader: Beyoncé, Black Feminism and Spirituality. New York: Routledge.
Journals/Publications
- Steptoe, T. (2018). "The Great Migrations and Black Urban Life in the United States, 1914-1970". The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History.
- Steptoe, T. (2018).
“Mexican Americans and the Power of Culture in Houston”
. Modern American History, 2, 65–69. - Steptoe, T. (2018). “Big Mama Thornton, Little Richard, and the Queer Roots of Rock ’n’ Roll”. American Quarterly, 70(1), 55-77.
- Steptoe, T. (2014). "Jazz, Migration, and Community in Interwar Houston". Journal of the West, 53(3), 42-50.
Presentations
- Steptoe, T. (2018, February). “From Lightnin’ to Lemonade: Redefining Culture in America’s Most Diverse City”. Houston Eats!. Houston, TX: University of Houston.
- Steptoe, T. (2018, February). “Houston Bound: Culture and Color in a Jim Crow City". Book Talk. San Marcos, Texas: Center for the Study of the Southwest, Texas State University.
- Steptoe, T. (2017, April). “From Sara Travers to Sandra Bland: Black Women, Law Enforcement, and the Legacy of the Houston Riot”. Organization of American Historians Conference. New Orleans, LA: Organization of American Historians.
- Steptoe, T. (2017, April). “Sex, Race, and Early Rock ‘n’ Roll”. Pop Conference. Seattle, WA: Museum of Popular Culture.
- Steptoe, T. (2017, August/Summer). “Accordion City: Ethnic Mexicans, Creoles of Color, and Musical Hybridity in Houston”. Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Society Conference. Northridge, CA: Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Society.
- Steptoe, T. (2017, February). “History in the Key of Life: Listening to Houston’s Polycultural Pasts". Calaboose African American Museum. San Marcos, Texas: Center for the Study of the Southwest.
- Steptoe, T. (2017, January). “History of the Ku Klux Klan and White Nationalism in the U.S.A". Inauguration Day Teach-in and March. Tucson, AZ.
- Steptoe, T. (2017, June). “Texas Stories”. Book Forum. Houston, TX: 100 Black Men of Greater Metropolitan Houston.
- Steptoe, T. (2017, March). “A Conversation on Segregated Spaces”. Tucson Festival of Books. Tucson, AZ: School of Social and Behavioral Sciences.
- Steptoe, T. (2017, October). “Strange Fruit and Lemonade: Music, Race, Gender, Class, Place,” ,. Symposium at Texas State University. San Marcos, TX: Texas State University.
- Steptoe, T. (2017, September). “Migration and the Making of a Multiethnic City”. School of Sociology Brown Bag. University of Arizona: School of Sociology, University of Arizona.
- Steptoe, T. (2016, April). “Communities of Color in Houston”. Lone Star Book Festival. Kingwood, TX.
- Steptoe, T. (2016, April). “Mexi-Cajun Blues: Accordions and Multilingual Voices in the Western South". Pop Conference. Seattle, WA: Museum of Popular Culture.
- Steptoe, T. (2016, March). “Houston Bound: Culture and Color in a Jim Crow City". Book talk. Houston, TX: Gregory School for African American History.
- Steptoe, T. (2015, April). "Big Mama's Shuffle: Willie Mae Thornton, Female Masculinity, and the Lavendar Scare". EMP Pop Conference. Seattle, WA.
- Steptoe, T. (2015, July). “Blaxican History: African American & Latino Cultural Connections in the Bayou City". Summer Workshop on African American Texas History,. Houston, TX: Texas Southern University.
- Steptoe, T. (2015, October). “Accordion Blues: Hybridity and Culture in the Western South”. Western History Association Conference. Portland, OR: Western History Association.
- Steptoe, T. (2015, September). “Big Mama’s Blues: Willie Mae Thornton and Female Masculinity". Association for the Study of African American Life and History Conference. Atlanta, GA.
- Steptoe, T. (2014, Fall). "'Soul Party': Black and Mexican American Music in Civil Rights-Era Houston". Association for the Study of African American Life and History Annual Meeting and Conference. Memphis, TN: Association for the Study of African American Life and History.
- Steptoe, T. (2014, Fall). "Music, Entertainment, and the Civil Rights Movement". Association for the Study of African American Life and History Annual Meeting and Conference. Memphis, TN: Association for the Study of African American Life and History.
Reviews
- Steptoe, T. (2023.
Review of Black Diamond Queens: African American Women and Rock and Roll, by Maureen Mahon
. - Steptoe, T. (2019.
Review of Dom Flemons Presents Black Cowboys, by Dom Flemons
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