Audrey Thomas McCluskey is Emerita Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies at Indiana University-Bloomington. She has received several university awards for her teaching, research, and service, including the most prestigious Bicentennial Medial. She served as Director of the acclaimed Black Film Center & Archive, and as Director of the Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center. In addition to teaching undergraduate and graduate courses on race, gender and education, her second area of teaching and research is Black Film Studies. Among her six published books are: Mary McLeod Bethune: Building a Better World (with Elaine M. Smith); A Forgotten Sisterhood: Black Women Educators and Activists in the Jim Crow South, and her memoir: GIRLCHILD: Growing Up Between the Pines and Palms in Jim Crow Georgia & Florida.
