Sidney Rose McCall
Ph. D. Student
advisor:
Jody Allen
Email:
[[srmccall01]]
Current Research:
Environmental History, Long Civil Rights Movement, Childhood, Gender, and Unfreedom
Bio
Sidney Rose is a historian of slavery and environmental history whose current research focuses on how Black fugitives and abolitionists used their environmental knowledge and ecologies to facilitate freedom struggles and solidarities that transformed antislavery and, later, antiracist efforts across the Long Civil Rights Movement.She received her BA in English w/ honors from North Carolina Wesleyan College (2018) alongside two MA degrees, one in Applied Social Sciences (FAMU, 2020) and the other in History (W&M, 2023). A member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc., she currently serves as an academic committee member and occasional docent at the Association to Preserve the Eatonville Community Inc., the oldest known incorporated Black town in the United States and the hometown of Zora Neale Hurston.
