Dr. Blair LM Kelley, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Dr. Blair LM Kelley is a noted scholar of Black history and the African American experience. Kelley — the author of Black Folk: The Promise of the Black Working Class and the award-winning Right to Ride: Streetcar Boycotts and African American Citizenship — is a John Hope Franklin National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow. She earned an appointment as the Joel R. Williamson Distinguished Professor of Southern Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where she is director of the Center for the Study of the American South and co-director of the Southern Futures Initiative. She also served as an assistant dean for Interdisciplinary Studies and International Programs in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences.