Eshe Sherley
Assistant Professor of Black Feminisms, University of Maryland, College Park
Eshe Sherley is an assistant professor of Black Feminisms at University of Maryland, College Park. She is working on a monograph tentatively titled Care in Crisis: How Black Women Pioneered a Black Feminist Politics of Social Reproduction. Care in Crisis tells the story of how a cohort of working-poor Black women activists became key political players in Atlanta and challenged both white and Black political leadership in the city. Before joining the Newhouse Center for the Humanities, her work has been supported by the Institute for Citizens and Scholars, the Center for Engaged Scholarship, and the Pauli Murray Center for History and Social Justice in Durham, NC.