Sister Scholars Council Member Darlene Clark Hine is Fellow at Harvard University
For the 2011-12 academic year, Darlene Clark Hine, Ph.D, a member of the Sister Scholars Advisory Council of The Delta Foundation’s Center for Research on African American Women, has been selected as a Sheila Biddle Ford Foundation Fellow at Harvard University’s W.E. B. DuBois Institute for African and African American Research.
As a Sheila Biddle Ford Foundation Fellow, Dr. Hine is on sabbatical leave from Northwestern University, where she is the Board of Trustees Professor of African American Studies and Professor of History. A noted scholar and expert on Black women’s history, she served as co-editor of the Foundation’s scholarly publication: PHILLIS: The Journal for Research on African American Women. Dr. Hine is also an honorary member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.
During the year-long fellowship at the DuBois Insitute, Dr. Hine will revise her publication, Rehearsal for Freedom: Black Women Health Professionals in South Carolina before Brown. The publication focuses on the lives and careers of four pioneer South Carolina women physicians and nurses during the Jim Crow era.
Hine is author of numerous books and publications, including Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia (co-editor with Rosalyn Terborg-Penn and Elsa Barkley Brown, 2 vols., 1994); editor of Black Women in America (3 vols., Oxford University Press, 2005); Black Women in White: Racial Conflict and Cooperation in the Nursing Profession, 1890-1950 (Indiana University Press, 1989); and The Rise and Fall of the Democratic White Primary in Texas (1979, rev. 2005, University of Missouri Press).
Dr. Hine, an honorary member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. is featured in the October 2011 issue of Essence Magazine as one of the nation’s most influential African American women.
