Alison Parker
Professor
History
University of Delaware
236 Munroe Hall
Newark, DE 19716
302-831-8413
Biography
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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