Audrey Thomas McCluskey is an American writer and professor emeriti. She is an alumna of Indiana University, where she was an African-American and African Diaspora Studies professor. [1] McCluskey has received a B.A. magna cum laude from Clark Atlanta University, an M.A. in African Studies from Howard University, and a Ph.D. in Historical and Comparative Education from Indiana University. [1]
McCluskey wrote the book Forgotten Sisterhood about four influential female African American educators in the American South and was interviewed by a National Park Service ranger about her research and books on Mary McLeod Bethune. [2] [3] She has also been an editor for The Devil You Dance With: Film Culture in the New South Africa, a collection of interviews with South African filmmakers, and a writer of articles and book reviews. [4] [5]
She was a panelist in the City of Bloomington, Indiana's "Women of Color in the Workplace" Roundtable Discussion and a guest on WFHB's "Bring It On". She spoke about her book Imaging Blackness: Race and Racial Representation in Film Poster Art at the NMBCC Library's 10th annual Library Evening Extravanza. [6] She reviewed Black Women in the Ivory Tower, 1850-1954: An Intellectual History by Stephanie Y. Evans. [7]
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