Dr. Megan Shockley
Consulting Historian
Historian of the twentieth-century American South, with expertise in gender, race, public history, labor, and social movements.
Dr. Megan Shockley is a historian of the twentieth-century American South whose work focuses on gender, race, labor, public history, and social movements. Prior to joining the Shockoe Institute, she was a professor of history at Clemson University, where she taught public history, U.S. women’s history, labor history, museum studies, heritage tourism, and digital history. Clemson lists her as coordinator of the Public History Emphasis Area Program and notes her work supervising internships and public history projects. (Clemson University, South Carolina)
She is the author of “We, Too, Are Americans”: African American Women in Detroit and Richmond, 1940–1954, which examines African American women’s wartime and postwar labor, activism, and civil rights experiences in Detroit and Richmond. (Google Books) She also authored the National Park Service administrative history of the Maggie L. Walker National Historic Site, exploring the development of the site and its role in preserving and interpreting the legacy of Maggie L. Walker. (National Park Service)
Speaking / interview topics
African American women in Richmond and Detroit during World War II
Women, labor, and the roots of the modern civil rights movement
Maggie L. Walker, public memory, and historic preservation
Gender, race, and social movements in the • twentieth-century South
Public history, museums, and community interpretation
Virginia women’s history and activist traditions
Suggested topic tags
Women’s History · African American History · Public History · Labor History · Historical Interpretation