Beverly Guy-Sheftall
BEVERLY GUY-SHEFTALL is a founding director of the Women’s Research and Resource Center (since 1981) and an Anna Julia Cooper Professor of women’s studies at Spelman College. She is also an adjunct professor at Emory University’s Institute for Women’s Studies where she teaches graduate courses in their doctoral program. At the age of sixteen, Guy-Sheftall entered Spelman College where she majored in English and minored in secondary education. After graduation with honors, she attended Wellesley College for a fifth year of study in English. In 1971 she returned to her alma mater, Spelman College, and joined the English Department. Guy-Sheftall has published a number of texts within African American and women’s studies. Guy-Sheftall is the recipient of numerous fellowships and awards, among them a National Kellogg Fellowship; a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship for dissertations in women’s studies; and Spelman’s Presidential Faculty Award for outstanding scholarship.
