NWHM Scholars Advisory Council
The National Women’s History Museum’s Scholars Advisory Council is a distinguished group of renowned women’s history scholars who help guide the Museum’s exhibition and programmatic strategies.
Drs. Sherrie Randolph and Alison Parker (left), and Drs. Allida Black and Marjorie Spruill (right) attend a women’s history celebration event at the White House, May 2024.
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Carol Berkin, Ph.D. |
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Carol Berkin is Presidential Professor of History, Emerita, of Baruch College & The Graduate Center, CUNY.
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Allida Black, Ph.D. |
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Allida Black is a Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the Miller Center for Public Affairs. |
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Julie Des Jardins, Ph.D. |
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Julie Des Jardins is a historian of American women and gender who has taught and written extensively in the field, particularly on the history of women in the professions.
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Paula Giddings, Ph.D. |
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Paula Giddings, Ph.D. is a Professor (Emerita), Elizabeth A. Woodson 1922, Africana Studies, Smith College.
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Lorri Glover, Ph.D. |
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Lorri Glover is the John Francis Bannon Endowed Chair, Department of History, Saint Louis University.
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Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Ph.D. |
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Beverly Guy-Sheftall is the founding director of the Women’s Research and Resource Center (1981) and Anna Julia Cooper Professor of Women’s Studies at Spelman College.
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Sumaiya A. Hamdani, Ph.D. |
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Sumaiya Hamdani, Ph.D. is an associate professor of Islamic, Middle East, and world history at George Mason University.
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Elizabeth Higginbotham, Ph.D. |
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Elizabeth Higginbotham is Professor Emerita of Sociology, University of Delaware.
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Amanda Johnson, Ph.D. |
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Dr. Amanda Johnson is a postdoctoral fellow in women’s history at the Newcomb Research Institute of Tulane University.
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Mary Klann, Ph.D. |
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Mary Klann, Ph.D. is a lecturer in the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, San Diego.
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Bonnie J. Morris, Ph.D. |
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Bonnie J. Morris is a scholar of women's studies. She completed a Ph.D. in women's history at Binghamton University and has taught at various universities across the country.
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Amrita Chakrabarti Myers, Ph.D. |
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Amrita Chakrabarti Myers, Ph.D. is the Ruth N. Halls Professor of History at Indiana University in Bloomington.
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Alison M. Parker, Ph.D. |
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Alison M. Parker is the Richards Professor of American History at the University of Delaware.
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Kenvi Phillips, Ph.D. |
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Kenvi Phillips is the Inaugural Director of the Barack Obama Presidential Library.
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Sherie M. Randolph, Ph.D. |
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Sherie M. Randolph is an associate professor of history at the Georgia Institute of Technology and the founder of the Black Feminist Think Tank.
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Amy Rutenberg, Ph.D. |
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Amy J. Rutenberg is an associate professor of history at Iowa State University.
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Marjorie J. Spruill, Ph.D., Chair, Scholars Advisory Council |
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Marjorie J. Spruill is a professor of history at the University of South Carolina. She is recognized in the U.S. and abroad as a leading authority on the women’s movement.
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Rose Stremlau, Ph.D. |
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Rose Stremlau, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor, Departments of History & Gender and Sexuality Studies, Davidson College.
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Deborah Gray White, Ph.D. |
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Deborah Gray White is the Board of Governors Professor of History and Professor of Women's and Gender Studies at Rutgers University.
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Karsonya “Kaye” Wise Whitehead, Ph.D. |
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Dr. Whitehead is the founding executive director of The Karson Institute for Race, Peace & Social Justice and a professor of communication and African and African American Studies at Loyola University Maryland.
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Kari J. Winter, Ph.D. |
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Kari J. Winter is a professor of American Studies in the Department of Global Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University at Buffalo.
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Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, Ph.D. |
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Judy Tzu-Chun Wu is a professor of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Irvine and the director of the Humanities Center.