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Dr. Stephanie Y. Evans is Assistant Professor in African American Studies and Women’s Studies at the University of Florida in Gainesville. She is the author of the forthcoming book Black Women in the Ivory Tower, 1850-1954: An Intellectual History (University Press of Florida, 2007). In May 2003, she received her Ph.D. in African American Studies with a concentration in History and Politics from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and in May 2002 earned a Master’s Degree in the same field. Also in 2002, she completed the Graduate Certificate Program in Advanced Feminist Studies.

Dr. Evans hails from Washington, D.C., but was raised overseas (Air Force brat) and the Mid-west before spending most of her growing years on the West Coast. Though she has always been a bookworm, she is a first-generation college student who benefited much from those who took time to mentor her. In her work, she passes on the guidance that has been offered her. SPECIAL THANKS TO MENTORS

Her research interest is Black women’s intellectual and educational history in the United States. In her dissertation, Living Legacies: Black Women, Educational Philosophies, and Community Service, 1865-1965, she considered the educational ideas of four African American women educators: Fanny Jackson Coppin, Anna Julia Cooper, Mary McLeod Bethune, and Septima Clark.

She has conducted research at sites including University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania, Howard University’s Moorland-Spingarn Research Center in Washington D.C. and through the University of Florida’s Paris Research Center in Paris, France. She has presented her work in in many places, including Cambridge England (International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities), Atlanta (Southern Historical Association), San Diego (American Educational Research Association), Chicago and New York (National Communication Association), Orlando, Milwaukee, and Buffalo (Association for the Study of African American Life and History), St. Petersberg (The Civil Rights Movement in Florida Conference), and Albuquerque (National Women’s Studies Association).

While completing her dissertation, Dr. Evans worked as the Assistant Director for Youth Education Programs in the Swearer Center for Public Service at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. In the summer of 1999 she was a research intern at Stanford University’s Haas Center for Public Service and worked on issues of cultural identity and community service.

In May 1999 she earned an Interdisciplinary Studies BA in Comparative Humanities--gender and cross-cultural American studies--from California State University, Long Beach. In her undergraduate work, she earned high honors: Phi Beta Kappa, Cum Laude, and Outstanding Department Graduate and was a Kellogg Fellow for one year and a McNair Scholar for two years. She is also a proud member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated.

She teaches "African Americans in Higher Education," "US Women of Color," “Research Methods in African American History,” “Interdisciplinary Perspectives of Women” "Mentoring At-Risk Youth," and “Introduction to African American Studies” at the University of Florida. She has taught service-learning courses in the Women’s Studies Department and for the Honors College through the Office of Community Service Learning at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She has also taught high school literature, grammar, SAT preparation, and college preparedness for the Holyoke Massachusetts Upward Bound program.

Her motto is: AMANI MOTO (May you find a balance between peace and passion). She lives by the values that she has learned from women (like Dr. Player, Dr. Cooper, and Dr. Bethune) in her research, as well as positive artists like Jill Scott, India Arie, and Erykah Badu.

LOVE
BALANCE
CIVIL RIGHTS
HUMAN RIGHTS
HUMILITY
SUSTAINABILITY