Alaina E. Roberts is an award-winning associate professor of history at the University of Pittsburgh, where she studies and writes about the intersection of Black and Native American life from the Civil War to the modern day.

She writes, teaches, and presents public talks about Black and Native history in the West, family history, slavery in the Five Tribes (the Chickasaw, Choctaw, Cherokee, Creek, and Seminole Indian Nations), Native American enrollment politics, and Indigeneity in North America and across the globe.

She is the author of "I've Been Here All the While: Black Freedom on Native Land," which received the Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize, the Western History Association’s John C. Ewers Award, and the W. Turrentine Jackson Book Prize. The book was also a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in history.

In addition to multiple academic articles, Dr. Roberts’ writing has appeared in news outlets like the Washington Post, TIME magazine, and High Country News, and her work has been featured in the New York Times, The Atlantic, the Boston Globe, on CNN and more.

Dr. Roberts holds a doctorate in history from Indiana University and a Bachelor of Arts in history with honors from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

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