Sharon Harley
Dr. Sharon Harley, Professor and (Interim) Chair, at the University of Maryland, College Park, researches and teaches black women's labor history and race and gender politics in the US and the African Diaspora. She and historian Rosalyn Terborg-Penn co-edited and contributed essays in the pioneer anthology, The
Afro-American Woman: Struggles and Images (1978). She edited and contributed to two anthologies, Sister Circle: Black Women and Work (Rutgers, 2002) and Women’s Labor in the Global Economy: Speaking in Multiple Voices (Rutgers, 2008), resulting from two major Ford Foundation grants.
Currently, she is completing a biography of Black feminist educator and working-class advocate Nannie Helen Burroughs titled Nannie Helen Burroughs: A Courageous Crusader for Black Woman’s Empowerment and Equality (Yale University Press) and a co-edited volume, Conceptualizing Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in the African/Black Diaspora: Multidisciplinary Perspectives.