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:
A'Lelia P. Bundles, Madam Walker Family Archives
Thadious M. Davis, University of Pennsylvania
Farah Jasmine Griffin, Columbia University
Cheryl D. Hicks, University of Delaware
Barbara D. Savage, University of Pennsylvania
Thadious M. Davis, University of Pennsylvania
Farah Jasmine Griffin, Columbia University
Cheryl D. Hicks, University of Delaware
Barbara D. Savage, University of Pennsylvania
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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