Stephanie Y. Evans

Ph.D., Afro-American Studies, History and Politics Concentration, University of Massachusetts - Amherst, May 2003
Master of Arts, Afro-American Studies, History and Politics Concentration, California State University - Long Beach, May 2002
Graduate Certificate in Advanced Feminist Studies, California State University - Long Beach, May 2002
Bachelor of Arts in Comparative Humanities, an Interdisciplinary Studies Major, California State University - Long Beach, May 1999.

Black women's intellectual history, mental health, and wellness, social justice, empowerment education, African American autobiography/memoir (themes: yoga, mental health, travel, social justice), Community engagement: service, service-learning, and community-based research

Dr. Stephanie Y. Evans is a Professor of Black Women's Studies and served as Director of the Institute for Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Georgia State University until 2022, concluding a dozen years of departmental administrative leadership. At GSU, in addition to WGSS she is affiliate faculty in the Department of Africana Studies and the Center for the Study of Stress, Trauma and Resilience.

Her research interest is Black women's intellectual history, particularly mental health and wellness in memoirs. Dr. Evans is the editor of the Black Women's Wellness book series at SUNY Press and has authored three books:

• Black Women’s Yoga History: Memoirs of Inner Peace (SUNY, 2021)
• Black Passports: Travel Memoirs as a Tool for Youth Empowerment (SUNY, 2014)
• Black Women in the Ivory Tower, 1850-1954: An Intellectual History (UF, 2007)

She is also the lead co-editor of five books:

• Dear  Department Chair: Letters from Black Women Leaders to the Next Generation (Wayne State, 2023)
• Black Women and Public Health (2022)
• Black Women and Social Justice Education (SUNY, 2019)
• Black Women's Mental Health: Balancing Strength and Vulnerability (SUNY Press, 2017)
• African Americans and Community Engagement in Higher Education (SUNY, 2009).

Until June 2019, Professor Evans served as Chair of the African American Studies, Africana Women's Studies, and History (AWH) Department at Clark Atlanta University. Dr. Evans was recognized with the 2017 Aldridge-McMillan Award for Excellence in Research at CAU. In 2013 she led the CAU Du Bois Legacy Project and in 2015, she edited Phylon: Review of Race and Culture, reviving the journal founded by W. E. B. Du Bois at Atlanta University. Her articles have appeared in Western Journal of Black Studies, Peace Studies Journal, Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, Feminist Teacher, Florida Historical Quarterly, and African American Research Perspectives. In addition to traditional publications, Evans enjoys community-based research projects with organizations like youthSpark (to support anti-sex-trafficking in Georgia) and Black Women’s Mental Health Institute in Birmingham, Alabama. She also curates several websites for various digital humanities projects, including AfricanaMemoirs.net, Black Women's Studies Booklist web resource bwstbooklist.net.

Before CAU, Dr. Evans served as Director of African American Studies of Women's Studies at the University of Florida. She was awarded the UF Colonel Allan R. and Margaret G. Crow Term Professor for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, 2010-11. Evans has conducted research at the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania, Howard University’s Moorland-Spingarn Research Center in Washington, D.C., and through the University of Florida’s Paris Research Center in Paris, France.