Crystal Sanders

Crystal R. Sanders is an award-winning historian of the United States in the twentieth century. Her research and teaching interests include African American History, Black Women’s History, Civil Rights History, and the History of Black Education. Professor Sanders is the author of A Chance for Change: Head Start and Mississippi’s Black Freedom Struggle and A Forgotten Migration: Black Southerners, Segregation Scholarships, and the Debt Owed to Public HBCUs.A Chance for Change* won the 2017 Critics’ Choice Award from the American Educational Studies Association and the 2017 New Scholar’s Book Award from Division F of the American Educational Research Association. Professor Sanders’ work can also be found in many of the leading history journals, including the Journal of Southern History, the North Carolina Historical Review, and the Journal of African American History.

Professor Sanders is the recipient of a host of fellowships and prizes and currently serves on the Executive Council of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) and as the Assistant Editor of the Journal of African American History.