WSP Scholars - Dr. Jacqueline Rouse

1999-2000 Womanist Scholar - Jacqueline A. Rouse, Ph.D.

Dr. Jacqueline Rouse has broad experience as an editor, lecturer, researcher and professor at various academic institutions. In addition to being a noted historian and educator, she is Associate Professor in the Department of History at Georgia State University, where she has also served as Core Faculty member in the Women Studies Institute and Adjunct Faculty member in the Department of African American Studies. She has served as Associate Professor at Morehouse College in the Department of History, Associate Professor in the Department of History at The American University in Washington, D.C. She was also Guest Lecturer in the Department of History at Jackson State University and in the School of Social Sciences at Georgia Institute of Technology. She has served as researcher/contractor at the Anacostia Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., and Assistant Editor of the Journal of Negro History. She was also coordinator for the creation of the African-American Studies Department at Georgia State University. Additionally, she has served as the Carter G. Woodson Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence in the Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History, Inc. in Washington, D.C.

Dr. Jacqueline Rouse is a native of Virginia and Washington, D.C. She was reared in a devoutly religious family that also had a strong commitment to community empowerment and improving race relations. Her own history of social activism and involvement in improving race relations stems from her family’s commitment to making a difference in one’s community. Her family was in the forefront of desegregation of schools in Lynchburg, Virginia.

Her education is extensive including a B.A. degree in Broadcast Journalism and African American Studies from Howard University. She earned a M.A. degree in Afro-American History from Atlanta University and a Ph.D. in American Studies from Emory University. Among her numerous scholarly achievements are several contributions in the form of books, articles, papers and presentations that have emerged out of her work in the area of Black Women’s roles in the Civil Rights Movement and Leadership in the Black community. Her articles include, Out of the Shadow of Tuskegee: Margaret Murray Washington, Social Activism and Race Vindication in the Journal of Negro History and a forthcoming article entitled Examining the Roots of Leadership in Septima P. Clark’s Activism in the Civil Rights Movement. Her book, Eugenia Burns Hope, Black Southern Reformer, received the Letitia Woods Brown Memorial Publication Prize, 1989. Also, she is co-editor of Women in the Civil Rights Movement, Trailblazers and Torchbearers.

Dr. Rouse has presented at numerous conferences and workshops throughout the United States including the Georgia Association of Historians; the Berkshire Conference on Women; the Southern Historical Association; and the Organization of American Historians.

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