Kimberly Sims

Assistant Professor
PhD, Harvard University
Battelle 135
sims@american.edu
202-885-2331
Office Hours: Tues./Fri. 12:45-2:45pm & 5-6pm
Curriculum Vitae

Course Syllabi

Fall 2008

HIS 209 African-American History since 1877
HIS 355/655 The Emergence of Modern America 1877-1920
HIS 355/655 Graduate Syllabus (Supplemental)

Spring 2007

Fields of Interest

African American history, urban history, immigration and ethnicity, the history of crime

Professors Sims has received numerous awards and prizes, including the Thomas Temple Hoopes Prize for Excellence in Teaching and the Charles Warren Center Dissertation Writing Fellowship. She has served as tutor, research assistant, and writing instructor, as well as consultant for a PBS documentary on prohibition. Her dissertation is entitled “Building a Moral Citizenry: Blacks, Italians, and Crime in New York City, 1900- 1930.”