Graduate Student Bios

Sydney Smith is a third-year doctoral student specializing in African American History and Women’s and Gender History with an interest in Black Power, motherhood, and Black print culture. Her current research explores the activism, entreprenuership, and diasporic politics of Black bookstores during the late twentieth century. Sydney is a Graduate Fellow for the Black Bibliography Project, a collaborative digital humanities project between Rutgers and Yale University, and serves as the Co-Convener for the Interpreting American History Lecture Series. She received her A.B. in Africana Studies and Political Science from Brown University.