SUNY PRESS | SEPTEMBER 2024
A Publishing Workbook for Faculty in Race and Gender Studies
About Dr. evans
Professor, Author, and Series Editor
Stephanie Y. Evans, PhD is a Professor of Black Women's Studies.
writing & working FOR BLACK WOMEN'S WELLNESS
About Dr. E's Academic Book Work
Dr. Evans served as a department chair for twelve consecutive years at Georgia State University, Clark Atlanta University, and University of Florida. Her research interest is Black women's intellectual history, memoirs, and mental health—what she calls #HistoricalWellness.
Dr. Evans is author of four books, including Black Women's Yoga History: Memoirs of Inner Peace (SUNY, 2021); Black Passports: Travel Memoirs as a Tool for Youth Empowerment (SUNY, 2014), and Black Women in the Ivory Tower, 1850-1954: An Intellectual History (UF, 2007) as well as lead co-editor of five books including, Dear Department Chair: Letters from Black Women Leaders to the Next Generation (Wayne State University Press, 2023); and Black Women's Mental Health: Balancing Strength and Vulnerability (SUNY Press, 2017).
In addition to books, she has published numerous articles and book chapters in History, Black Studies, and Women’s Studies. Dr. Evans has experience as an author, series editor for a university press, author mentor, manuscript reviewer, and manuscript editor. In addition to serving as a thesis and dissertation chair for over two decades, she has reviewed manuscripts for authors at presses including New York University, University of Rochester, University of Illinois, University of Mississippi, Oxford University, University of Florida, and has reviewed manuscripts for authors at Pennsylvania State, Notre Dame, CUNY, and Syracuse.
Her full profile is online at www.professorevans.net
