Pamela ScullyProfessor - WGSS and African StudiesAdvisor to the Provost

Pamela Scully is Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Professor of African Studies, and Advisor to the Provost at Emory University. She has her Ph.D. in history from the University of Michigan.

Her research interests focus on comparative women's and gender history. Her latest book is Writing Transnational History co-authored with Professor Fiona Paisley (Bloomsbury Academic UK  2019). Other books include Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (Ohio University Press, 2016); Sara Baartman and the Hottentot Venus: a Ghost Story and a Biography, co-authored with Clifton Crais (Princeton, 2009, 2010); Gender and Slave Emancipation in the Atlantic World (Duke University Press 2005), co-edited with Diana Paton, and Liberating the Family? Gender and British Slave Emancipation in the Rural Western Cape, South Africa, 1823-1853 (Heinemann, 1997). She is also the author of the AHA pamphlet, Race and Ethnicity in Women's and Gender History in Global Perspective (2006), and many articles and chapters.

Professor Scully is president-elect of the Association for Undergraduate Education at Research Universities, and Chair of the Committee on Gender Equity of the American Historical Association, a member of the editorial board of the Oxford Encyclopedia of African Women’s History and is on the board of The Journal of Southern African Studies. She is co-convener of the Coursera MOOC course Understanding Violence and the Journeys to Education Teach-Out, focusing on diverse experiences of education, including that of First-Generation students.  She served as the Deputy Editor of the Women’s History Review and as Treasurer and Secretary of the International Federation for Research in Women's History.