HISTORIAN OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN'S HISTORY AND BLACK RADICALISM DR. ASHLEY D. FARMER is a historian of Black women's history, intellectual history, and radical politics. She is currently an Associate Professor in the Departments of History and African and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Her book, Remaking Black Power: How Black Women Transformed an Era is the first comprehensive study of black women's intellectual production and activism in the Black Power era. She
Farmer's scholarship has appeared in numerous venues including The Black Scholar and The Journal of African American History . Her research has also been featured in several popular outlets including Vibe , and Harper’s Bazaar, The Washington Post . She has provided commentary on national and international media outlets including The New York Times , NPR , and Al-Jazeera. She is also a Distinguished Lecturer with the Organization of American Historians.
Farmer has received numerous fellowships and awards including fellowships from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University and National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), and the Whiting Foundation . The Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford University and the American Association of University Women (AAUW) have also supported her research. She was a founding leader of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS) and a regular blogger for Black Perspectives . F