Pamela ScullyDirector of Graduate Studies - WGSSSamuel Candler Dobbs Professor - WGSS and African StudiesAdvisor to the Provost

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

Professor Scully’s research interests focus on gender history. She is currently engaged in research for a history of transnational feminist efforts to address sexual violence in conflict. Her most recent 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, James Currey and David Philip, 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 past-president of the Association for Undergraduate Education at Research Universities, and a member of the editorial board of the Oxford Encyclopedia of African Women’s History and of The Journal of Southern African Studies. She is on the advisory board of Social Dynamics. She is co-convener of the Coursera online course Understanding Violence and the Journeys to Education Teach-Out, focusing on diverse experiences of education, including that of First-Generation students.  She has served as Vice Provost for Undergraduate Affairs at Emory, and as Deputy Editor of the Women’s History Review and as Treasurer and Secretary of the International Federation for Research in Women's History.