• Black women’s 19th and 20th century history
• Black women’s academic participation and intellectual production
• Research methods in African American history
• Community service-learning and experiential education

Primarily grounded in history, my research is inherently interdisciplinary.

My research interest is African American women's history. I focus on Black women's pre-1954 participation in higher education. I also explore leading educators' contributions to academic praxis. Intellectual history, development of higher education in the United States, and trends in educational opportunity underlie interest in women such as Mary Annette Anderson, Willa Player, Anna Julia Cooper, and Mary McLeod Bethune. Other areas of interest are U.S. social history between Emancipation and school desegregation, Black women's 20th century organizations, and the impact of cultural identity on educational attainment and social mobility.

        My manuscript on Black women's educational history, Black Women in the Ivory Tower, 1850-1954: An Intellectual History, will be published by the University Press of Florida (February 2007). Black Women in the Ivory Tower chronicles Black women's struggle for access to higher education and presents historic philosophies of influential scholars.Part One, an educational history, begins in 1850, when Oberlin conferred the first college diploma upon Lucy Stanton and continues through the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision.Part Two, an intellectual history, presents Black women's philosophies of higher education between Anna Cooper's 1892 A Voice from the South and Mary McLeod Bethune's 1955 "Last Will and Testament." This story reveals how Black women demanded space as students and asserted their voice as educators, contributing in significant ways to higher education in the United States.

In addition to producing a book manuscript, I have sought to advance the interdisciplinary fields of Black Studies and Women's Studies. By submitting work to journals such as GRIOT, Journal of African American History, International Journal of Women's Studies, Feminist Teacher, andInternational Journal of the Humanities, I engage in national and international discussions about the relationship between academic scholarship and cultural identity. Historic African American women educators utilized experiential education to foster transformation of both colleges and communities. My praxis of applied learning is central to my research agenda. I have focused on Black women's intellectual production and how their thought can advance current imperatives to recruit and support a diverse student and faculty population in higher education.

• 2006    University of Dar es Salaam, East Africana Library. University of Florida Gender and Development Faculty Exchange Program. Tanzania, East Africa.
  

• 2003 & 2005  Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Manuscript Division. Howard University, Washington, D.C.

• 2003   University of Florida Paris Research Center, Scholar-in-Residence Program. Reid Hall. Paris, France.
  

• 1999   Haas Center for Public Service, Post-baccalaureate Summer Research Intern. Stanford University. 
  

• 1998   University of Gama Filho, History of Sport Conference. “A Cultural Framework for the Study of Sport History in Brazil.”Paper presentation, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil.
  

• 1998     California State University, Long Beach, McNair Program. “The Quality of Rights: A Literary Analysis of the United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the United States’ Bill of Rights.”
  

• 1997     California State University, Long Beach, McNair Program. “How Solid is the Rock?: Gauging the Historical Accuracy of Schoolhouse Rock.”  

Books

Evans, Stephanie Y. Black Women in the Ivory Tower, 1850-1954: An Intellectual History. University Press of Florida. (Feb. 2007).

Refereed Journal Articles

Evans, Stephanie Y. (2008) "Mary McLeod Bethune's Research Agenda: Thought Translated to Work." African American Research Perspectives. Spring, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 22-39.

Evans, Stephanie Y. (2007) "Women of Color in American Higher Education." Thought & Action. Fall, vol. 23, pp. 131-38.

Evans, Stephanie Y. (2006) "The State and Future of the Ph.D. in Black Studies: Assessing the Role of the Comprehensive Examination." Griot: Southern Conference on African American Studies. Spring, May 2006. vol. 25, no. 1, pp. 1-16.

Evans, Stephanie Y.(2006) "Major Service: Combining Students' Academic Disciplines with Community Service-Learning in an Introductory Women's Studies Course." Feminist Teacher. vol. 17, no. 1, pp. 1-14.

Evans, Stephanie Y.(2006)  "'I Was One of the First to See Daylight': Black Women at Predominantly White Colleges and Universities in Florida since 1959." Florida Historical Quarterly. vol. 85, no. 1, pp. 42-63.

Evans, Stephanie Y.(2006) "This Right to Grow": African American Women's Intellectual Legacy." International Journal of the Humanities. vol. 3, no. 7, pp. 163-74.

Book Chapters

Evans, Stephanie Y. (2008) "The Vision of Virtuous Women: Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority's Founding Twenty Pearls." In, Black Greek Letter Organizations in the 21st Century: Our Fight Has Just Begun. Gregory S. Parks, Editor. University Press of Kentucky [CHAPTER PREVIEW ON BLACK GREEK SCHOLAR]

Featured Publications (invited, non-refereed)

Evans, Stephanie Y. (2008) "Ethel Hedgeman Lyle." African American National Biography. Oxford University Press. vol. 5, p. 334.

Evans, Stephanie Y. (2005) "Recent Research Rewrites Society' History with Identity of First Black Woman Member." Phi Beta Kappa The Key Reporter. Winter, February 2005. pp. 3, 9, 14.

Evans, Stephanie Y. (2004) "Black Greek-lettered Organizations and Civic Responsibility." Black Issues in Higher Education. October 7, 2004. p. 98.

Costa, Margaret D. Evans, Stephanie Y. & Haralson, Evelyn (1998) "A Cultural Framework for the Study of Sport History and Brazil." VI Congresso Brasileiro De Historia Do Esporte, Lazer E Educacao Fisica Gama Filho University Press: Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. December 1998. pp. 39-45.

Accepted for Publication

Evans, Stephanie Y. "Gender Research and the African Academy: 'Moving Against the Grain' in the Global Ivory Tower." Black Women, Gender, & Families.

Citations in Scholarly Research

Peter Wallenstein (January 2008) Higher Education and the Civil Rights Movement University Press of Florida.

Marybeth Gasman (December 2007) "Swept Under the Rug? A Historiography of Gender and Black Colleges." American Educational Research Journal.

Derrick Alridge (November 2007) "The Educational Ideas of Anna Julia Cooper and W.E.B. Du Bois, 1892-1940" History of Education Quarterly.

Maura Murphy (March 2007) "Sisters are Doing It For Themselves: The Impact of Professional Development Programs for Women." Master's Thesis, North Carolina State University.

Under Review

Evans, Stephanie Y. "African American Women and International Research: Dr. Anna Julia Cooper's Legacy of Study Abroad." Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad.

Book Reviews

Evans, Stephanie Y. (2008) The Early Black History Movement, Carter G. Woodson, and Lorenzo Johnsonton Greene By Pero G. Dagbovie. Journal of American History. vol. 95, no. 1, pp. 234-35.

Evans, Stephanie Y. (2007) Atlas of Race, Ancestry, and Religion in 21st-Century Florida By Morton D. Winsberg. Florida Historical Quarterly. vol. 85, no. 2, pp. 254-56.

Evans, Stephanie Y. (2006) Before His Time: The Untold Story of Harry T. Moore, America's First Civil Rights Martyr By Ben Green. Journal of African American History. vol. 91, no. 2, p. 223.

Evans, Stephanie Y. (2005) Black Body: Women, Colonialism, and Space  By Radhika Mohanram. Journal of International Women's Studies. vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 171-73.

Evans, Stephanie Y. (2002)  Smart and Sassy: The Strengths of Inner-City Black Girls By Joyce West Stevens.Sex Roles: A Journal of Research. August 2002, vol. 47, nos. 3/4, pp. 199-200.

Evans, Stephanie Y. (2001) Modeling Good Service-Learning Course Preparation: Two New Useful Guides for Faculty and Students. Book Review Essay: Reaching Out to Children & Families: Students Model Effective Community Service By Michelle Dunlap and Fundamentals of Service-Learning Course Construction By Kerri Heffernan Campus Compact Reader: Service-Learning and Civic Education. vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 18-21.

Additional Contributions

Evans, Stephanie Y. (2006). "What would an ideal home for historians of education look like?" Online discussion group post. "Where do Historians of Education Live?" H-Education.

Evans, Stephanie Y. (2001)Service Learning Resource Guide for Faculty. Office of Community Service-Learning: University of Massachusetts.
 
Evans, Stephanie Y. (2001)Creative Service Learning: A Multilevel Resource Guide for Faculty. Connecticut Campus Compact: Trinity College.

Evans, Stephanie Y. (1999)Community Service Learning Center Faculty Resource Handbook(The Red Book). Office of Community Service-Learning: California State University, Long Beach.