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equity, inclusion, and diversity efforts, including his role as a founding member
of African and African American Studies at EKU.
ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS
Jayne R. Beilke is Professor of Educational Studies at Ball State University. She
received her doctorate in History of Education from Indiana University-
Bloomington. Her current areas of research include Indiana Quaker women who
taught freed slaves during Reconstruction along with her search for a freed slave
who attended school at the Union Literacy Institute in Indiana.
John P. Elia is Professor of Health Education and Associate Dean of Health and
Social Sciences at San Francisco State University. His areas of interest include
the history of public health in the U.S., social movements and health in
twentieth-century U.S. history, and contemporary sexuality.
Joshua D. Farrington teaches History and African American Studies at Eastern
Kentucky University. He completed his PhD in History from the University of
Kentucky, and his scholarship focuses on twentieth-century Black politics, Black
capitalism, and Black Nationalism.
Oran Kennedy is a PhD candidate at Leiden University, the Netherlands. He is
currently finishing his doctoral dissertation on African American freedom seekers
in the antebellum northern U.S. and Canada. His research interests include
nineteenth-century North American history, self-emancipation and abolition, the
U.S. Civil War and Reconstruction, transnational black migrations, refugee
studies, and historical memory.