American Studies Fall 2023 Colloquium - Race, Class, and Black Radical Visions
Title: Rebel Archives: The Life and Legacy of Queen Mother Audley Moore

Speaker: Associate Professor Ashley Farmer
This is a hybrid event - with the speaker remote. Please join us in person for lunch in 404 Morrill Hall or join the meeting via this link. Lunch will be available at 11:45am.

Bio: Dr. Farmer is a historian of Black women's history, intellectual history, and radical politics. She is currently an Associate Professor in the Departments of History and African and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Her book, Remaking Black Power: How Black Women Transformed an Era is the first comprehensive study of black women's intellectual production and activism in the Black Power era. She is also the co-editor of New Perspectives on the Black Intellectual Tradition, an anthology that examines central themes within the black intellectual tradition.

Her next book, Queen Mother Audley Moore: Mother of Black Nationalism (Pantheon Books) will be the first biography of one of the most influential yet understudied activists and thinkers of the 20th century. The book examines Audley Moore's life and activism from 1898 to 1997 and reveals how she was an important but overlooked progenitor of Black Nationalist thought and activism.

Farmer's scholarship has appeared in numerous venues including The Black Scholar and The Journal of African American History. Her research has also been featured in several popular outlets including Vibe, and Harper’s Bazaar, The Washington Post. She has provided commentary on national and international media outlets including The New York Times, NPR, and Al-Jazeera. She is also a Distinguished Lecturer with the Organization of American Historians.

Farmer has received numerous fellowships and awards including fellowships from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), and the Whiting Foundation. Farmer was a founding leader of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS) and a regular blogger for Black Perspectives. She is also a co-editor of the Black Power Series published with NYU Press and the Black Women History Series, published with UNC Press.

Farmer earned a BA from Spelman College, an MA in History, and a Ph.D. in African-American Studies from Harvard University.