Stacey Akines
Graduate Student
- Porter Hall 225C
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, 20 th 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 in 20 th century America. Stacey 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
- MA in History, Carnegie Mellon University, 2022
Research Interests and Areas of Study
- Histories of Education
- Black Intellectual History
- Black Reconstruction
- 20th century Urban/Suburban U.S. History
- Transnational African American History
Courses Taught
Fall 2023 Co-Instructor
Undergraduate Course: African American History, Race, and the Fight for Reparations in
National and Transnational Perspective
Carnegie Mellon University, History Department, Pittsburgh, PA
Undergraduate Course: African American History: Blacks in the World
Lecture: “Educational Inequalities and the Case for Reparations”
Spring 2022 Guest Lecturer
Alvernia University, Program in Leadership, Reading, PA
Graduate Course: Poverty in America
Lecture: “Making and Presenting Research Posters at Academic Conferences”
Publications
- Akines, S.L. (in press). 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, & S. E. Vaught (Eds.), Elegies,
futurities, and now: Anti-carceral freedom struggles in urban Appalachia. University Press of
Kentucky.
Conference Papers, Panels, and Presentations
- “Reparations and Black Teacher Re-education,” Reparations and the Right to the City, Urban
History Association, Pittsburgh, PA, October 27, 2023. - “Black Homeschooling: New Phenomenon or Persistent Fugitive Pedagogy?” The Pandemic
Divide Conference, Samuel Dubois Cook Center on Social Equity, Duke University, October 25-
27, 2022. - “Insurgent Knowledges: Homeschooling as Resistance,” Beyond "the Crisis": Education for
Local and Global Liberation, Center for Urban Education Summer Educator Forum, University
of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, June 22-25, 2022.
Podcasts and Multi-Media
- The Persistence of Slavery with Robin Phylisia Chapdelaine, Interview Podcast, The Society for
the History of Children and Youth, January 2023. https://shcy.pinecast.co/episode/21fb8d44/the-
persistence-of-slavery