Christy Garrison-Harrison, PhD

Dr. Christy Garrison-Harrison is currently a Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of New York at Buffalo. Dr. Garrison-Harrison is an Assistant Professor of History and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Southern University and Agricultural & Mechanical College in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. She earned a Doctor of Philosophy in History with a Certificate in Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies from Georgia State University and a Master of Arts in African American History and Bachelor of Arts in History from Clark Atlanta University.

Dr. Garrison-Harrison’s primary research foci are on the American South (with a concentration on Black women’s political leadership and influence upon economically developing Black communities within the region), Black Womanist Geographies, and the cultural dynamics of White American matriarchy. Secondary research interests include Afro-Latinx community advocacy and Black Women in colonial Europe and America.
Dr. Garrison-Harrison is a contributing author and co-editor on Dr. Sherice Nelson’s Africana Women’s History anthology scheduled for Fall, 2024 publication, is currently completing a solo manuscript on Black women’s community activism in Atlanta, Georgia during the modern Civil Rights’ Movement era and developing a manuscript on antebellum matriarchal culture.
Her most recently completed article is an institutional biographical essay on the history of Southern University and Agricultural & Mechanical College for an Emory University Historically Black College and University (HBCU) project and co-authoring “Remembering Jacqueline Anne Rouse, 1950–2020: Scholarship, Educational Advocacy, and Mentoring as Audacious Leadership.” In conjunction with Southern University and Agricultural & Mechanical College’s Department of History, she developed a roundtable series centering Black Women’s activist-scholarship. She is expanding the series to spotlight Latinx and Indigenous scholars in the upcoming academic year.