The Department of History's Annual Black History Month Lecture will be presented by Alaina Roberts, associate professor of history at the University of Pittsburgh. Roberts is the author of I’ve Been Here All the While: Black Freedom on Native Land, which was awarded the Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize and the Western History Association’s John C. Ewers Award and W. Turrentine Jackson Book Prize. Roberts has written multiple academic essays as well as op-eds and profiles for The Washington Post, TIME magazine,and High Country News. Her research has been featured in CNN, The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The New Yorker and The Atlantic.