Wanda A. Hendricks teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on African Americans, African American women and the United States from 1865 to the present. Her primary focus is on the social and political experiences of African Americans during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. She is the author of Gender, Race, and Politics in the Midwest: Black Club Women In Illinois published by Indiana University Press in 1998 and is a senior editor of the 3 volume Black Women In America published by Oxford University Press in 2005.

Current Activities: I am currently the National Director of the Association of Black Women Historians (ABWH) and serve on the Executive Council of the Southern Association for Women Historians (SAWH). I am writing a biography of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries African American social welfare reformer Fannie Barrier Williams.