Stacey Akines

PhD Student

Stacey Akines is a Ph.D. candidate in the history department at Carnegie Mellon University where she studies Black educational history and Black intellectual traditions, 20th century urban history, and the power dynamics involving slavery (and its afterlives), Black Reconstruction(s), and Jim Crow(s) in the United States. Her research traces the intellectual history of Black home education and ideas of Black home education in 20th century America. Stacey has been a visiting Student Fellow at the University of Pittsburgh’s Center for Urban Education and has worked with Carnegie Mellon’s Center for Africanamerican Urban Studies and the Economy (CAUSE) as a research assistant for Pittsburgh’s “Crafting Democratic Futures Project” with Principal Investigator Dr. Joe W. Trotter, Jr.

Education

Publications

Akines, S.L. (March 2025). “Liberation is Yet to Come: An Interview with Stacey Akines.” In J. Z. Bennett, C. L. McGuire, L. Delale-O’Connor, T. E. Dancy II, and S. E. Vaught (Eds.) Black Freedom Struggle in Urban Appalachia. University Press of Kentucky.

Akines, S.L. (August 2024). “Teaching Desegregation: African American Community Education and the Pittsburgh Courier 1954-1956,” Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies.

 
Fellowships, Internships, Grants, and Awards

Pre-doctoral Intern, Center for Urban Education, The University of Pittsburgh (Spring 2025)

Milton A. and Nancy D. Washington Fellowship Award, Department of History, Carnegie Mellon University (Summer 2024)

GSA/Provost Conference Funding, Carnegie Mellon University (Summer 2024)

Graduate Student Small Project Help (GuSH), Carnegie Mellon University (Summer 2024)

August Wilson Archive Research Award (Spring 2024)

Visiting Student Fellow, Center for Urban Education, The University of Pittsburgh (2023-2024)
 
 
Research Interests

Black Intellectual History; Black Educational History; Black Revolutionary Traditions in Education; Black Reconstruction; 20th Century Urban/ Suburban History; African American Transnational History; August Wilson’s Century Cycle


Advisor
Nico Slate