Allida M. Black

Allida Black is Director and Editor of The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers, a project designed to preserve, teach and apply Eleanor Roosevelt's writings and discussions of human rights and democratic politics. Outside the classroom, she has curated several public exhibitions on Eleanor Roosevelt's political career, authored teachers' guides for PBS documentaries, and served as an advisor to other documentaries prepared for PBS, the History Channel, A&E, and the Discovery Channel. Each year she partners with the Women's Research and Education Institute to train congressional fellows to apply historical methods to the development and analysis of congressional human rights policy. Dr. Black is the recipient of two honorary doctoral degrees, the GW's Millennium Medal, the 2001 Person of Vision Award from the Arlington County Commission on the Status of Women, and the James A Jordan Award for Outstanding Dedication and Excellence in Teaching from Penn State University, Harrisburg. She serves on the board of directors of The Center for New Deal Studies, the Liberian Education Trust, the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute, and Women Count. She is currently completing Human Rights: Pages from History, to be published by Oxford University Press, which will also publish her political biography of Eleanor Roosevelt in 2008. Her next book will be a biography of the University of Tennessee basketball coach Pat Summitt, to be published by University of New Mexico Press. (Complete C.V.)

Selected Publications

The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers: Volume I, The Human Rights Years, 1945-1948. Detroit: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2008.

Editor, Human Rights: A Magazine for History. City: Organization of American Historians, April 2008.

Casting Her Own Shadow: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Shaping of Postwar Liberalism. New York: Columbia University Press, 1995.

"What I Want to Leave Behind": Democracy and the Selected Articles of Eleanor Roosevelt. Brooklyn, NY: Carlson Publishing, 1995.

Courage In A Dangerous World: The Political Writings of Eleanor Roosevelt. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999.

Democratic Women: An Oral History of the Women's National Democratic Club. Washington, DC: WNDC Educational Foundation, 2000. Co-edited with Jewel Fenzi.

Education

Ph.D., The George Washington University, 1993.