Alison M. Parker is the Chair and a Professor of History at the
University of Delaware. She has research and teaching interests at the
intersections of gender, race, disability, citizenship and the law in U.S.
history. She majored in art history and history at the University of
California, Berkeley and earned a PhD from the Johns Hopkins University. In
2017-2018, Parker was an Andrew W. Mellon Advanced Fellow at the James Weldon
Johnson Institute for the Study of Race and Difference at Emory University, where
she worked on her current book project, a biography of the civil rights
activist and suffragist Mary Church Terrell. Unceasing Militant: The Life of
Mary Church Terrell is forthcoming with the University of North
Carolina Press in its John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and
Culture. Parker is the author of two historical monographs, Articulating Rights: Nineteenth-Century American Women on Race,
Reform, and the State (2010) and Purifying America: Women, Cultural Reform, and Pro-Censorship
Activism, 1873-1933 (1997). She has also co-edited three anthologies
and authored numerous articles and book chapters. While a faculty member at the
State University of New York, College at Brockport, Parker was awarded the SUNY
Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Research and Creative Activity (2012). Her
next book project is a study of the civil rights activist, Mary Hamilton, the
first female field director for the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). Parker
serves as the founding editor of the Gender and Race in American History book
series for the University of Rochester Press. As Chair of the History
Department at the University of Delaware, Parker is committed to building a
coalition of students, faculty, and staff promoting a wide-ranging anti-racism
agenda. She is trained to lead antiracism and racial justice workshops and
community conversations and will work to recruit and retain a diverse community
of faculty and students.
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