The Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity at Stanford University has announced that four visiting scholars will spend this academic year at Stanford conducting independent research, completing writing projects, and participating in the center’s seminars and forums. Two of the four scholars are women.
Bridget Ford is an associate professor of history at California State University-East Bay. She is completing work on a book entitled American Crossings: Forging Union in a Civil War Borderland.
Dr. Ford is a graduate of Barnard College in New York City. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of California at Davis.
Cherene Sherrard-Johnson is an associate professor of English at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. She is working on a book with the title of Dorothy West’s Paradise: A Biography of Class and Color.
Dr. Sherrard Johnson is a graduate of the University of California at Los Angeles. She holds a Ph.D. from Cornell University.