Audrey Thomas McCluskey is an American writer and professor emeriti. She is an alumna of Indiana University where she was an African-American and African Diaspora Studies professor.
She received a B.A. magna cum laude from Clark Atlanta University, an M.A. in African Studies, from Howard University, and a Ph.D. in Historical and Comparative Education from Indiana University.
She wrote the book Forgotten Sisterhood about four influential female African American educators in the South. She was interviewed by a National Park Service Ranger about her research and books on Mary McLeod Bethune. She edited a book of interviews with South African filmmakers. She has also written articles and book reviews.
She was a panelist in the City of Bloomington, Indiana's "Women of Color in the Workplace" Roundtable Discussion. She was a guest on WFHB's "Bring It On". She spoke about her book Imaging Blackness: Race and Racial Representation in Film Poster Art at the NMBCC Library's 10th annual Library Evening Extravanza. She reviewed Black Women in the Ivory Tower, 1850-1954: An Intellectual History by Stephanie Y. Evans.
Writings
“Mary McLeod Bethune and the Education of Black Girls in the South, 1904–1923”, Ph.D. dissertation, Indiana University (1991) Mary McLeod Bethune: Building a Better World, Essays and selected documents co-edited with Elaine M. Smith Indiana University Press (1999) Imaging Blackness: Race And Racial Representation in Film Poster Art (2007) Richard Pryor: The Life and Legend of a ‘Crazy’ Black Man (2008) The Devil You Dance With; Film Culture in the New South Africa, editor and introduction, University of Illinois Press (2010) A Forgotten Sisterhood; Pioneering Black Women Educators and Activists in the Jim Crow South (2014)
Articles
"Ringing Up a School: Mary McLeod Bethune's Impact on Daytona" Florida Historical Quarterly (1994) "We Specialize in the Wholly Impossible": Black Women School Founders and Their Mission" Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and SocietyVolume 22, Number 2
References
Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American writers Indiana University faculty