Carnegie Mellon University

Stacey Akines

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

Carnegie Mellon University, History Department, Pittsburgh, PA
Undergraduate Course: African American History, Race, and the Fight for Reparations in
National and Transnational Perspective
Guest Lecturer

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

 


Advisor

Nico Slate