Participant Info
- First Name
- Sonya
- Last Name
- Ramsey
- Country
- United States
- State
- NC North Carolina
- sramse17@uncc.edu
- Affiliation
- University of North Carolina at Charlotte
- Website URL
- sonyayramsey.com
- Keywords
- African American Gender History, History of Education, Teachers, Youth Culture, Urban Southern History
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
Sonya Ramsey is a Professor of History and Women’s and Gender Studies and the Director of the Women’s and Gender Studies Program at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Dr. Ramsey is the author of several historical works, including the recently released Bertha Maxwell-Roddey, a Modern-Day Race Woman, and the Power of Black Leadership (University Press of Florida) and Reading, Writing, and Segregation: a Century of Black Women Teachers in Nashville, (University of Illinois Press). A sought-after speaker and research consultant on themes relating to education, desegregation, African American women’s history, oral history, US history post-1877, and Women’s and Gender Studies, Dr. Ramsey served as a consultant or provided information for Axios, Charlotte Magazine, NPR, (National Public Radio), Lemonadamedia.com, and USA Today. A proud graduate of Howard University with a BA in Journalism, she also received a master’s and a Ph.D. in United States History from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
- Recent Publications
Sonya Ramsey is the author of several historical works including, Ramsey is the author of several historical works, including the recently released Bertha Maxwell-Roddey, a Modern-Day Race Woman, and the Power of Black Leadership (University Press of Florida) and Reading, Writing, and Segregation: a Century of Black Women Teachers in Nashville, (University of Illinois Press); a book chapter entitled, “The Destiny of Our Race Lies Largely in Their Hands:’ African American Women Teachers’ Efforts during the Progressive Era in Memphis and Nashville,” in the edited volume, Their Work in the Public Sphere: Tennessee’s New Women in the New South During the Progressive Era, Mary Evins, editor, (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2013); and “Caring is Activism: Black Southern Womanist Teachers Theorizing and the Careers of Kathleen Crosby and Bertha Maxwell-Roddey, 1946–1986,” in Educational Studies: A Journal of the American Educational Studies Association 48, no. 3, (2012), 244-265 .
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- Country Focus
- United States
- Expertise by Geography
- United States
- Expertise by Chronology
- 20th century
- Expertise by Topic
- Children & Youth, Gender, Higher Ed, Local & Regional, Museums, Race, Urban History, Women
