Shennette Garrett-Scott

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Shennette Monique Garrett-Scott [1] is an American historian. She specializes in African-American women in economic history and wrote the 2019 book Banking on Freedom: Black Women in U.S. Finance Before the New Deal . She has been a professor at the University of Mississippi, Texas A&M University, and Tulane University.

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Originally working with mortgages, Shennette Garrett-Scott was inspired to go into academia after seeing a picture of Theodore Roosevelt with National Negro Business League. [2] After obtaining her BA in Historical Studies at the University of Texas at Dallas in 2004, she moved to the University of Texas at Austin, where she obtained her MA in American History and eventually her PhD in American History, both in 2006 and 2011. [3] Her dissertation, Daughters of Ruth: Enterprising Black Women in Insurance in the New South, 1890s to 1930s, was supervised by Juliet E. K. Walker. [1]

After spending a year in Case Western Reserve University as a postdoctoral fellow (2012-2013), she moved to the University of Mississippi, where she was Assistant Professor in History and African American Studies until he was promoted to Associate Professor in 2019. [3] She moved to Texas A&M University in 2021 and remained Associate Professor. [3] She also works at the Tulane University School of Liberal Arts as Associate Professor of History and Africana Studies and Paul and Debra Gibbons Professor. [4]

As an academic, she specializes in African-American women in economic history. [5] She won the 2012 H. Bailey Carroll Award for Best Article in the Southwestern Historical Quarterly from the Texas State Historical Association. [5] In 2019, she published Banking on Freedom: Black Women in U.S. Finance Before the New Deal , a book on African-American women in finance during the late 19th century and early 20th century; [6] she won the 2018 Darlene Clark Hine Award, the 2019 Letitia Woods Brown Book Award from the Association of Black Women Historians, and the 2020 Bennett H. Wall Award from the Southern Historical Society for said book. [7] [8] [9] She has also worked on public broadcasting documentaries, appearing on PBS's Boss: The Black Experience in Business and working as a consultant for a Mississippi Public Broadcasting documentary on women's suffrage. [10] She has also served as the National Vice Director of the Association of Black Women Historians. [10]

She lives in Houston. [11] She and her husband have three children. [2] Outside of academia, she assisted in the 2012 landmark designation of the Grand Court Order of Calanthe and has worked on the preservation of its archives after its 2020 receivership. [11]

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References

  1. 1 2 Garrett-Scott, Shennette Monique (2011). Daughters of Ruth: Enterprising Black Women in Insurance in the New South, 1890s to 1930s (PhD thesis). University of Texas at Austin. Retrieved January 30, 2024.
  2. 1 2 "Shennette Garrett-Scott Earns Her Doctorate — and How!". University of Texas at Austin. Retrieved January 30, 2024.
  3. 1 2 3 "Garrett-Scott TAMU CV" (PDF). University of Texas at Austin. Retrieved January 30, 2024.
  4. ↑ "Shennette Garrett-Scott". Tulane University School of Liberal Arts. Retrieved January 30, 2024.
  5. 1 2 "People of TSHA: Shennette Garrett-Scott". Texas State Historical Association. Retrieved January 30, 2024.
  6. ↑ "Banking on Freedom: Black Women in U.S. Finance Before the New Deal". Columbia University Press. Columbia University Press. Retrieved January 30, 2024.
  7. ↑ "Darlene Clark Hine Award". Organization of American Historians. Retrieved January 30, 2024.
  8. ↑ "LETITIA WOODS BROWN MEMORIAL BOOK, ANTHOLOGY, AND ARTICLE AWARDS". Association of Black Women Historians. Retrieved January 30, 2024.
  9. ↑ "Bennett H. Wall Award". Southern Historical Association. Retrieved January 30, 2024.
  10. 1 2 "Shennette Garrett-Scott". Women Also Know History. Retrieved January 30, 2024.
  11. 1 2 "History Peeps: Shennette Garrett-Scott, Associate Professor of History". University of Texas at Austin. Retrieved January 30, 2024.
  12. ↑ Shennette, Garrett-Scott. "Banking on Freedom: Black Women in U.S. Finance Before the New Deal". Library Journal. Retrieved January 30, 2024.
  13. ↑ "Banking on Freedom: Black Women in US Finance Before the New Deal by Shennette Garrett-Scott". E3W Review of Books. Retrieved January 30, 2024.
  14. ↑ Baradaran, Mehrsa (2020). "Banking on Freedom: Black Women in U.S. Finance before the New Deal by Shennette Garrett-Scott (review)". Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas. 17 (4): 127–129. ISSN   1558-1454 – via Project Muse.
  15. ↑ Ervin, Keona K. (2020). "Shennette Garrett-Scott, Banking on Freedom: Black Women in U.S. Finance before the New Deal . New York: Columbia University Press, 2019. Pp. 288. $35.00 (cloth)". The Journal of African American History. 105 (1): 140–141. doi:10.1086/706569. ISSN   1548-1867.
  16. ↑ Meltsner, David J. (July 1, 2021). "Banking on Freedom: Black Women in U.S. Finance Before the New Deal". Journal of American Ethnic History. 40 (4): 116–118. doi:10.5406/jamerethnhist.40.4.0116. ISSN   0278-5927.
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