Born in Missouri in 1947, reared and educated in Illinois, Hine earned her bachelor's degree in history at Roosevelt University, Chicago, and her master's and doctoral degrees from Kent State University, in Kent, Ohio. She has written about African‐American women by focusing on the intersections of race, gender, and class. In the past fifteen years, Hine has edited forty volumes (including a two‐volume historical encyclopedia, Black Women in America), published three award‐winning books, and produced over forty articles and essays (some just collected for the book, Hine Sight: Black Women and the Re‐Construction of American History). As John A. Hannah Professor of History at Michigan State University since 1987, she has developed a new doctoral field in Comparative Black History. Hine has one daughter, Robbie Davine. This interview was conducted at the Southern Historical Association meeting in Louisville, Kentucky, in November, 1994, by Roger