Professor Brenda Stevenson

Professor Stevenson is the inaugural Hillary Rodham Clinton Chair in Women’s History. She was previously the Nickoll Family Endowed Chair in the Department of History and a Professor of African American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

In her role as the Clinton Chair Professor Stevenson actively works to demonstrate that the study of women and their histories, particularly those which address women of color, is both valuable and legitimate. She continues to push the university system further towards this goal by encouraging the development of future scholars and cutting-edge scholarship on women’s histories within the historical discipline’s mainstream, while also fostering the creation of new students and schools of thought committed to advancing research on women and gender, specifically.