Dr. Tammy Sanders Henderson
Associate Teaching Professor · Non-Tenure Track
Department of Africana Studies Department of Gender, Women's, and Sexuality Studies
College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences
She/Her/Hers/Herself
About
Dr. Henderson earned her PhD. from the University of Maryland College Park in American Studies, along with a certificate in Women’s Studies. She has published several works, including “He says that before I should have my children he will blow their brains out”: The Battle Between African American Parents and the Maryland’s Orphans Court in the Nineteenth Century in Women, Gender, and Families of Color.
Research interests
My research interests include investigating Black family dynamics, specifically as it concerns Black women as mothers and their representation in popular culture. I have expanded that research to include exploring early American Black women who petitioned the courts for their freedom and that of their children.
Teaching interests
My teaching interests focus on developing courses that address the intersectionality of race, gender, and class and how they come together to effect society's most vulnerable members, women and people of color. Specifically, my interests lean heavily on examining public policies that have directly and indirectly touched these communities, like social security and welfare, while exploring the future implications of these policies on educational, socio-economic, health, employment, and gender politics.
Education
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Other, American Studies
— University of Maryland College Park (2009) The Long Tradition: African American Women and Mothers in Popular Discourses
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Ph D, American Studies
— University of Maryland College Park (2009) The Long Tradition: Black Women and Mothers in Popular Discources
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MA, English Literature
— Bowling Green State University (1997) A Womanist World and How the Spirit Makes it Possible: Womanists and Black Feminists Discuss Spirituality
- BA, English — Johnson C. Smith University (1995)