Co-Chairs
Stephanie Y. Evans, PhD
Dr. Evans is Professor and Director of the Institute for Women’s, Gender and Sexuality at Georgia State University.
Tracy Sharpley-Whiting, PhD
Dr. Sharpley-Whiting is the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Distinguished Professor of Humanities (AADS and French), Chair of African American and Diaspora Studies, and Director of the Callie House Center at Vanderbilt University.
working symposium: september 13, 2019
Mid-Career Workshop Presenters
Stephanie Y. Evans Georgia State University | Personal Page
Tracy Sharpley-Whiting Vanderbilt University
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Stephanie Adams
Dean of the Eric Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science
Katherine Bankole-Medina
Professor of History and Distinguished Faculty Researcher
Copping State University | Personal Page
Margo Crawford
Professor of English and Director of the Center for Africana Studies
Michelle Dunlap
Professor of Human Development Department
Tara T. Green
Linda Carlisle Excellence Professor of Women's and Gender Studies
University of North Carolina-Greensboro | Personal Page
Carol Henderson
Inaugural Vice Provost for Diversity and Inclusion, Chief Diversity
Officer, and Advisor to the President
Donna Nicol
Associate Professor and Chair of Africana Studies
California State University-Dominguez Hills | Personal Page
Theresa Rajack-Talley
Inaugural Vice-Provost of Equity & Inclusion
Noliwe Rooks
Professor of Africana Studies
Cornell University | Personal Page
Janice Sumler-Edmond
Professor Emerita of United States History and Constitutional Law
Stephanie Shonekan
Professor and Chair of W. E. B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies
University of Massachusetts-Amherst | Personal Page
Special thanks to:
Dr. Tiffany Patterson, Dr. Claudine Taffe, Ms. Lennita Tate, and Dr. Gilman Whiting
PALIMPSEST JOURNAL
Palimpsest: A Journal on Women, Gender, and the Black International
Palimpsest is a peer-reviewed journal that publishes cutting edge interdisciplinary scholarship and creative work by and about women of the African Diaspora and their communities in the Atlantic and Indian Ocean Worlds. A partnership between Vanderbilt University’s African American and Diaspora Studies Program and the State University of New York (SUNY) Press, the journal is published twice a year and accepts submissions on a rolling basis.
The Chair at the Table special issue of Palimpsest is expected to be published in fall or winter 2020. Updates will be posted here when the collection is available.