Dr.
Stephanie Y. Evans is Assistant
Professor in African American Studies and Women’s Studies at the
University of
Florida in Gainesville. She is the author of the acclaimed book Black Women in the Ivory Tower, 1850-1954:
An Intellectual History (University Press of Florida, 2007).
In
May 2003, she received her Ph.D. in African American
Studies with a concentration in History and Politics from the
University of
Massachusetts, Amherst and in May 2002 earned a Master’s Degree in the
same
field. Also in 2002, she completed the Graduate Certificate
Program in
Advanced Feminist Studies.
Dr. Evans
hails from Washington, D.C., but was
raised overseas (Air Force brat) and the Mid-west before spending most
of her
growing years on the West Coast. Though she has always been a bookworm,
she is
a first-generation college student who benefited much from those who
took time
to mentor her. In her work, she passes on the guidance that has been
offered
her. [ VIEW SPECIAL THANKS TO MENTORS]. She is a proud member of Alpha
Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated -- Mu Upsilon Omega Chapter, Gainesville, Florida.
Ms. Stephanie Y. Evans is absolutely in love with and happily engaged to Mr. Curtis D. Byrd, McNair Director at Georgia State University.
Dr. Evans's
research interest is Black
women’s
intellectual and educational history in the United States. In her
dissertation, Living
Legacies: Black Women, Educational Philosophies, and Community Service,
1865-1965, she considered the educational ideas of four African
American
women educators: Fanny Jackson Coppin, Anna Julia Cooper, Mary McLeod
Bethune,
and Septima Clark.
She
has conducted research at
sites
including 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. She has presented her work in in many places, including
Cambridge England (International
Conference on New Directions in the Humanities), Atlanta (Southern
Historical Association), San Diego (American
Educational Research Association), Chicago and New York (National
Communication
Association), Orlando, Milwaukee, and Buffalo (Association for the
Study of
African American Life and History), St. Petersberg (The Civil Rights
Movement
in Florida Conference), and Albuquerque (National Women’s Studies
Association).
While
completing her
dissertation, Dr.
Evans worked as the Assistant Director for Youth Education Programs in
the
Swearer Center for Public Service at Brown University in Providence,
Rhode
Island. In the summer of 1999 she was a research intern at
Stanford University’s Haas Center for Public Service and worked on
issues of
cultural identity and community service.
In
May 1999 she earned an
Interdisciplinary Studies BA in Comparative Humanities--gender and
cross-cultural American studies--from California State University, Long
Beach. In
her undergraduate work, she earned high honors: Phi Beta Kappa, Cum
Laude,
and Outstanding Department Graduate and was a Kellogg Fellow for one
year and a
McNair Scholar for two years.
She
teaches "Black Gender," “Research
Methods in African American History: Jazz Historiography,” "African Americans in Higher Education," "US Women of Color," “Interdisciplinary
Perspectives
of Women” "Mentoring At-Risk/Local Youth," and “Introduction to African
American Studies” at the
University of
Florida. She has taught service-learning courses in the Women’s Studies
Department and
for the
Honors College through the Office of Community Service Learning at the
University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She has also taught high
school
literature, grammar, SAT preparation, and college preparedness for the
Holyoke
Massachusetts Upward Bound program.
Her motto is:
AMANI MOTO
(May
you find a balance between peace and passion). She lives by the values
that she has learned from women in her research (like Dr. Player, Dr. Cooper, and Dr.
Bethune), as well as positive artists like Jill Scott,
India Arie, and Erykah Badu.
LOVE
BALANCE
CIVIL
RIGHTS
HUMAN
RIGHTS
HUMILITY
SUSTAINABILITY
VOTE 08!
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On a personal note:
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