Speakers
- Kimberly Wallace-Sanders
- Emory University, Associate Professor
Kimberly Wallace-Sanders is an Associate Professor of American and African American Studies at Emory University. She is the author of two books: Skin Deep, Spirit Strong: The Black Female Body in American Culture and Mammy: A Century of Race, Gender and Southern Memory. Professor Wallace-Sanders is completing work on a book called “Framing Shadows: Portraits of Black Women with White Children.” It will be the largest collection of African American women in domestic portraiture,1840 -1920. She curated the exhibit of “Framing Shadows,” photographs from the Langmuir collection of African American photographs at Woodruff Library. Wallace-Sanders is the 2018-2019 Faculty Fellow in the Office of Sustainability Initiatives & Faculty Liaison for United Nation’s University’s Regional Center of Expertise. Her scholarship appears in: Women, and Popular Culture: Representation and Meaning, Like One of the Family Domestic Workers, Race, & In/Visibility in The Help, Women’s History Review, Southern Quarterly, Southern Cultures and Winterthur Portfolio.