Black Women and Biography
AHA Session 83A
Saturday, January 4, 2025: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM
Mercury Ballroom (New York Hilton, Third Floor)
Chair:
Sharon Harley, University of Maryland, College Park
Panel:
Thadious M. Davis, University of Pennsylvania
Tiffany Gill, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Farah Jasmine Griffin, Columbia University
Barbara D. Savage, University of Pennsylvania
Brenda E. Stevenson, University of California, Los Angeles
Tiffany Gill, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Farah Jasmine Griffin, Columbia University
Barbara D. Savage, University of Pennsylvania
Brenda E. Stevenson, University of California, Los Angeles
Session Abstract
Inspired by Barbara Savage’s Merze Tate: The Global Odyssey of a Black Woman Scholar (Yale, 2023),
this session explores questions of sources, methodology, and interpretation in biographies of African
American women. Panelists will speak from their experiences as scholars whose work represent a rich
variety of approaches to researching and writing the lives of a diverse group of black women.
this session explores questions of sources, methodology, and interpretation in biographies of African
American women. Panelists will speak from their experiences as scholars whose work represent a rich
variety of approaches to researching and writing the lives of a diverse group of black women.
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