Patricia Bell-Scott

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Patricia Bell-Scott is an American scholar of women's studies and black feminism. She is currently a professor emerita of women's studies and human development and family science at the University of Georgia.[1] As an author, she has been widely collected by libraries worldwide.[2]

Personal life

A native of Chattanooga, Tennessee, Bell-Scott lives in Athens, Georgia, with her husband, Charles Vernon Underwood Jr., a retired Tennessee Valley Authority information technology manager.

Career

Patricia Bell-Scott is an author and professor emerita of women's studies and human development and family science at the University of Georgia.

Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction, and longlisted for the National Book Award.[5][6]

Bell-Scott's previous books include Life Notes: Personal Writings by Contemporary Black Women (1994), which was a featured selection of the

Gloria Hull and Barbara Smith
, 1982), an award-winning textbook that was named to the Black Issues Books Review list of "Books that Made the Century Great."

Bell-Scott served for a decade as co-founding editor of

Ms. Magazine
. She is also a co-founder of the National Women's Studies Association, for which she served as co-convener of the inaugural coordinating council.

She has held post-doctoral fellowships at the

John F. Kennedy School of Government and the W.E.B. DuBois Institute at Harvard University, as well as the Jane and Harry Willson Center for the Humanities and the Arts at the University of Georgia
.

She has held professorial, research, and administrative appointments at the

The Journal of Negro Education; the National Council on Family Relations, the National Association for Women in Education
, and the National Institute for Women of Color.

Publications

References

  1. ^ "Patricia Bell-Scott". University of Georgia Institute for Women's Studies.
  2. ^ "Bell-Scott, Patricia". WorldCat.org. Retrieved October 8, 2016.
  3. ^ "Patricia Bell-Scott | Institute for Women's Studies". iws.uga.edu. Retrieved September 26, 2017.
  4. ^ "University of Georgia: Birthplace of public higher education". www.uga.edu. Retrieved September 26, 2017.
  5. ^ "2017 Lillian Smith Book Award winners | UGA Libraries". www.libs.uga.edu. Retrieved September 26, 2017.
  6. ^ "The Carnegie Interviews: Patricia Bell-Scott". The Booklist Reader. December 19, 2016. Retrieved September 26, 2017.

External links

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