Dr. Sharon Harley Honored as Exceptional Historian

The College of Behavioral and Social Sciences congratulates Dr. Sharon Harley, an associate professor in the Department of African American Studies, who was honored by Michigan State University as one of the top historians in the field of Black Women's History in the United States.

A special ceremony recognized Dr. Harley and several of her associates as pioneers in the field at "Cross-Generational Dialogues in Black Women’s History: A Comparative Black History Symposium" at Michigan State. The symposium ran from March 20 to March 21. The symposium was designed to emphasize the importance of intergenerational mentoring. Several panels delved into timely topics, including “Black Women, Incarceration, Violence, and Resistance” and “Black Women, Education, Migration, and Networking.” To learn more, visit www.BWHxG.org.

Dr. Harley is a former chair of the African American Studies Department. She researches and teaches black women's labor history and racial and gender politics. She is the editor and a contributor to the noted anthologies Sister Circle: Black Women and Work (Rutgers, 2002) and Women's Labor in the Global Economy: Speaking in Multiple Voices (Rutgers, 2008); and she has published numerous essays in various anthologies including Telling Histories: Black Women Historians in the Ivory Tower (UNC Press, 2008).

Dr. Harley has been a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and, in the spring of 2008, at the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University, where she worked on her historical monograph about gender, labor and citizenship in the lives of African Americans in the United States from the 1860s to 1920s.

Published on Thu, Mar 19, 2015 - 10:31AM