Tameka Bradley Hobbs is a graduate of Florida A&M University (B.A., History) and Florida State University, where she earned her doctoral degree in United States History, and Historical Administration and Public History. She has taught courses in American, African American, oral history, and public history at Florida A&M University, Virginia State University in Petersburg, Virginia, and John Tyler Community College, in Chester, Virginia.
In addition to her teaching experience, she has served as a researcher, writer, consultant, and director for a number of public and oral history projects in Florida and Virginia, including the African American Trailblazers in Virginia History Program, a statewide educational program focused on celebrating African American History. Her professional experience includes serving as Director of Projects and Program for the John G. Riley Museum and Center of African American History and Culture, located in Tallahassee, Florida.
After relocating to Virginia, between 2006 and 2007, Hobbs worked as the historian and coordinator of the Valentine Richmond History Center’s Richmond History Gallery Project. From 2007 to 2011, Hobbs worked as Program and Education Manager for the Library of Virginia, where she coordinated the African American Trailblazers in Virginia History Program, a statewide educational program focused on celebrating African American History. In 2011, she authored a children’s book about the Library of Virginia entitled To Collect, Protect, and Serve: Behind the Scenes at the Library of Virginia.
Hobbs joined the faculty of Florida Memorial University in Miami Gardens, Florida, in August of 2011, and currently serves at Interim Chair of the Department of Social Sciences and as University Historian. Her book, Democracy Abroad, Lynching at Home: Racial Violence in Florida was published in August 2015 by the University Press of Florida.
EDUCATION
- B.A., History and Anthropology, Florida Agricultural & Mechanical University, Tallahassee, Florida, December 1996.
- M.A., United States History, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, April 2000.
- Ph.D., United States History, Historical Administration and Public History, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, August 2004. Dissertation: “‘Hitler is Here’: Lynching in Florida During the Era of World War II.”
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
- Interim Chair, Department of Social Sciences, August 2015 – present, Florida Memorial University, Miami Gardens, Florida
- University Historian, August 2014 – present, Florida Memorial University, Miami Gardens, Florida
- Assistant Professor of History, August 2012 – present, Florida Memorial University, Miami Gardens, Florida
- Visiting Professor of History, August 2011 – July 2012, Florida Memorial University, Miami Gardens, Florida
- Adjunct Instructor, August 2006 – December 2007, Virginia State University, Petersburg, Virginia
- Adjunct Instructor , June 2006 – December 2007, John Tyler Community College, Chester, Virginia
- Assistant Professor of History, August 2003 – December 2005, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, Tallahassee, Florida
- Program and Education Manager, Library of Virginia, October 2007 – July 2011, 800 E. Broad Street, Richmond, Virginia
- Historian and Project Coordinator, Valentine Richmond History Center, Richmond History Gallery Project, July 2006 – August 2007, 1015 E. Clay Street, Richmond, Virginia
- Director of Projects and Programs, John G. Riley Center and Museum of African American History of Culture
419 East Jefferson Street, Tallahassee, Florida, January 2003 – August 2003; (formerly Senior Office Assistant, from Aug. 1999)