Education

• A. Limestone College
• M.A. Wake Forest University
• Ph.D. Purdue University

Bio

Wanda A. Hendricks taught undergraduate and graduate history courses on Black Women, African Americans, and the United States. She retired in 2018. Her current book project explores the lives of a rural Black family from Sandy Ridge Township in Union County, North Carolina from enslavement to the present.

Publications

Books:

• The Life of Madie Hall Xuma: Black Women's Global Activism during Jim Crow and Apartheid (University of Illinois Press, 2022) - Darlene Clark Hine Book Award Honorable Mention; Rosalyn Terborg-Penn Book Award Finalist
• Fannie Barrier Williams: Crossing The Borders of Region and Race (University of Illinois Press, 2013 e-Book; paper and cloth 2014) - Awarded the Letitia Woods Brown Prize
• Gender, Race, and Politics in the Midwest: Black Club Women in Illinois (Indiana University Press, 1998)

Editor:

• Book Series Editor, Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History Series, University of Illinois Press, 2013-2024
• Senior Editor, Black Women In America: Second Edition. 3 Vols. (Oxford University Press, 2005)