Associate Professor of History
Keller Family Endowed Professor

• Ph.D., in American History with concentrations in African American and Latin American History, Louisiana State University, 2009
• M.A., in American History, Louisiana State University, 2001
• B.A., History, Xavier University of Louisiana, 1999

Specialties: U.S., New South, Civil Rights, African American Activism

Dr. Sinegal-DeCuir teaches courses in African American History, including Slavery and Servitude, U. S. Civil Rights Movement, and Hip Hop and Social Justice. She has worked in the field of public history and been featured on MSNBC, History News Network, has been quoted in the New York Times and published a New York Times Op-Ed article, as well as interviews by local news and radio media. She has written several articles, one of her most noted ones being published in The Journal of African-American History titled, “Nothing Is To Be Feared”: Norman C. Francis, Civil Rights Activism, And The Black Catholic Movement. She is currently working on a book under contract with LSU Press. Dr. Sinegal-DeCuir has served as member of the New Orleans Tricentennial Symposium Committee, the New Orleans Public School Board Renaming Committee, and the Louisiana Civil Rights Trail Site Review Committee. She currently serves as the Chair of the American Historical Association’s Nominations Committee and has served on their Committee on Minority Historians. Dr. Sinegal-DeCuir is a board member for the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities, the Louisiana Supreme Court Historic Society and currently chairs the Helis Foundation John Scott Center. Dr. Sinegal-DeCuir was awarded a $500,000 Andrew W. Mellon Grant to create the African American and African Diasporic Cultural Studies Major at Xavier University of Louisiana. In addition, she serves as, President of Faculty Association and is the 2021 recipient of the Xavier University of Louisiana Norman C. Francis Faculty Excellence Award in Teaching.