Ashley Everson is an Assistant Professor of African-American and Africana Studies at the University of Maryland. She recently completed her PhD in Africana Studies at Brown University. Her research interests include Black feminist thought, political theory, labor history, and Black women’s political histories.
Her book project, “Voices of the Valley: Black Women, Radical Politics, and Internationalism in the Tennessee Valley, 1931–1950,” highlights how, over a 20-year period, poor and working-class Black women living in the Tennessee Valley region—Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Kentucky, Georgia, North Carolina, and Virginia—created a vision for democracy that had both a local and global impact. The project was recently awarded the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations’ (SHAFR) William Appleman Williams Emerging Scholar Grant.
Along with Robert Greene II, she is a managing editor of Global Black Thought. You can follow her on Twitter @aevers0n.