Christy Garrison-Harrison

PhD

Christy Garrison-Harrison.

Christy Garrison-Harrison

PhD

Christy Garrison-Harrison

PhD

Distinguished Visiting Scholar
2023-2024

About

Dr. Christy Garrison-Harrison’s primary research foci are on the American South (with a concentration on Black women’s political leadership and influence upon economically developing Black communities within the region,) Black Womanist Geographies, and the cultural dynamics of White American matriarchy. Secondary research interests include Afro-Latinx community advocacy and Black Women in colonial Europe and America. Dr. Garrison-Harrison is the second author on an Africana Women’s History textbook scheduled for Fall, 2023 publication, is currently completing a solo manuscript on Black women’s community activism in Atlanta, Georgia during the modern Civil Rights’ Movement era, and developing a manuscript on the role of Matriarchy in antebellum American culture. Her most recently completed article is Remembering Jacqueline Anne Rouse, 1950–2020: Scholarship, Educational Advocacy, and Mentoring as Audacious Leadership, co-authored with Dr. Kenja Foster McCray and Dr. Charmayne E. Patterson. In conjunction with Southern University and Agricultural & Mechanical College’s Department of History, she developed an initial roundtable series centering Black Women’s activist-scholarship. She is expanding the series to spotlight Latinx and Indigenous scholars in the upcoming academic year.