Kimberly Wallace-Sanders

Kimberly Wallace-Sanders is an Associate Professor of African American Studies. Professor Wallace-Sanders’s edited volume Skin Deep. Spirit Strong: Critical Essays on the Black Female Body in American Culture, (University of Michigan Press, 2002) was the first academic volume nominated for an NAACP Image Award in Literature.

Professor Wallace-Sanders is currently completing a book called “Framing Shadows: Portraits of Black Women with White Children.”  It will be the largest collection of portrait photographs of its kind.As the natural sequence to her book Mammy: A Century of Race, Gender and Southern Memory (University of Michigan Press, 2007), this new book project represents a shift in her scholarly interests from the cultural representations of “the mammy” as a character to the African American women whose daily lives were focused on caring for white children. 

Wallace-Sanders is a recipient of the 2021-2022 Emory University Research Council Fellowship. She was selected as a 2021 NEH Selected Summer Institute Faculty Participant: “Visual Culture, The Civil War and its Aftermath” and was a finalist for the 2021 HistoryMakers Innovations in Pedagogy and Teaching Fellowship.”

Wallace-Sanders first curated exhibition, “Framing Shadows: Portraits of African American Nannies with White children from the Robert Langmuir African American Photograph Collection,” (2019) was selected to become Emory University Inaugural Online Exhibition and won the 2021 Southeastern Museums Conference Silver Medal for Academic Exhibitions.

https://exhibits.libraries.emory.edu/framing-shadows/

Curatorial Interview:

https://exhibits.libraries.emory.edu/framing-shadows/resources/