Stephanie Y. Evans

Dr. Stephanie Y. Evans is a Professor of Black Women's Studies and has served as Director of the Institute for Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Georgia State University. At GSU, she is affiliate faculty in the Department of African-American Studies as well as in the Center for the Study of Stress, Trauma and Resilience. Until June 2019, she served as Chair of the of African American Studies, Africana Women's Studies, and History (AWH) Department at Clark Atlanta University. Her research interest is memoirs as Black women's intellectual history. She is author of two books: Black Passports: Travel Memoirs as a Tool for Youth Empowerment (SUNY, 2014) and Black Women in the Ivory Tower, 1850-1954: An Intellectual History (UF, 2007) as well as lead co-editor of three books, Black Women and Social Justice Education (SUNY, 2019), Black Women's Mental Health: Balancing Strength and Vulnerability (SUNY Press, 2017), African Americans and Community Engagement in Higher Education (SUNY, 2009). She has two projects in progress--"Chair at the Table: Black Women Department Chairs on Academic Service, Leadership, and Balance" as well as Black Women and Public Health: Regenerative History, Practice, and Planning (under contract, SUNY). She is curator of the Black Women's Studies Booklist web resource bwstbooklist.net and also editor of the Black Women's Wellness book series at SUNY Press.

Dr. Evans was recognized with the CAU 2017 Aldrdge-McMillan Award for Excellence in Research. In 2015, she edited Phylon: Review of Race and Culture, reviving the journal founded by W. E. B. Du Bois at Atlanta University. She also has co-edited "Africana Studies at the Graduate Level: A Twenty-first Century Perspective," a special issue of the Western Journal of Black Studies and published in journals including Peace Studies Journal, Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, Feminist Teacher, Florida Historical Quarterly, and African American Research Perspectives. In addition to traditional publications, Evans curates several of her own websites for various digital humanities projects, including AfricanaMemoirs.net, and BlackWomensInnerPeace.net.
Prior to CAU, Dr. Evans served as Director of African American Studies of Women's Studies at the University of Florida. She was awarded the UF Colonel Allan R. and Margaret G. Crow Term Professor for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, 2010-11. Evans has conducted research at University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania, Howard University’s Moorland-Spingarn Research Center in Washington D.C. and through the University of Florida’s Paris Research Center in Paris, France.