Audrey Thomas McCluskey

Audrey Thomas McCluskey is Professor Emerita of African American and African Diaspora Studies. At Indiana University, she directed the internationally acclaimed Black Film Center & Archive and held other administrative offices including Director of the Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center, and Graduate Advisor in her Department. Among her five scholarly books are: "Mary McLeod Bethune: Building a Better World" (with Elaine M Smith); "A Forgotten Sisterhood: Black Women School Founders in the Jim Crow South;" and :Imaging Blackness: Race and Racial Representation in Film Poster Art." Her new memoir, "GIRLCHILD:Growing Up Between the Pines & Palms in Jim Crow Georgia & Florida," is a personal reflection and retrospection on her childhood, family, social, and cultural environment in the segregated South.