OSUN Faculty

Lisa Bratton

Dr. Lisa Bratton, a native of Vallejo, California, is a tenured Associate Professor of History at Tuskegee University. She received her B.B.A. from Howard University, her M.B.A. from Atlanta University and her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in African American Studies from Temple University. Her primary research interest is Historic Brattonsville, the South Carolina plantation on which her ancestors, Green and Malinda Bratton, were enslaved. Her upcoming book, Resistance of the Forever chronicles the lives of enslaved people from Brattonsville using over 150 years of plantation records. Dr. Bratton is passionate about voting and serves as an Election Day volunteer at her local precinct. She is an avid traveler who has visited 50 states, six continents and such fascinating places as North Korea and Cuba; in 2018, she traveled to five continents in five weeks.