Paul Barba

Paul Barba (Ph.D., U.C. Santa Barbara) is associate professor of History and affiliate faculty of Critical Black Studies. He is the author of the multi-prize-winning book, Country of the Cursed and the Driven: Slavery and the Texas Borderlands (University of Nebraska, 2021), and the editor of Gulf South Rebels, Insurgents, and Revolutionaries: Bonds of Rebellion, 1700-1860 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025). He also is co-editor of Understanding Marronage: Critical and Cross-Disciplinary Engagements, a book series with Lexington Books, and regular contributor to the Journal of the Civil War Era.