Jermaine
History Teacher, Dorm Associate
A native of Houston, Texas, Jermaine Thibodeaux attended Cornell University, where he was selected as a Mellon-Mays Undergraduate Research Fellow. After earning an AB in history, with a certificate in the law and society program, Jermaine returned to Texas to earn a master's in American history at the University of Texas at Austin. While at the University of Texas, Jermaine examined the role of the Texas sugar industry in the development and expansion of the state's prison system. His work also examined the impact of black male incarcerations in late nineteenth and early twentieth century Texas and explored how this phenomenon affected Black Texans and their communities. His intellectual interests also broadly include notions of masculinities, criminality, slavery and racial capitalism. He is trained in early American, southern, and African American history.