Atlanta Metropolitan State College

Courses Taught

African American History, United States History I, United States History II

Research Areas / Interests

Gender, Black Power, Black Nationalism, Transnational Histories, African American Studies, 19th and 20th Century U.S. History, Women in Kawaida-influenced organizations during the 1960s, 1970s, & 1980s.

Current/Upcoming Projects / Activities / Scholarship

McCray, K. & Pamoja, N. J. “Black Power.” Encyclopedia of African American Leadership.

Select Presentations / Publications

• Panel Participant: Nobody Knows Their Names: New Perspectives on Black Freedom Struggle Activism. Georgia Association of Historians. Georgia Southern University, Statesboro. February 2015.

• Panel Participant: New Perspectives on African American Women’s Civil Rights Activism. Paper: “Two Movements, One Struggle: Cultural Nationalist Women’s Memories of Civil Rights Movement Sentiment and Work as Catalysts for Joining the Black Freedom Struggle.” Association for the Study of African American Life and History. Memphis, TN. September 2014.

• Invited Panel Participant: History Careers at America’s 1,200 Community Colleges. Annual Meeting of the Organization of American Historians. Atlanta, GA. April 2014.

• Panel Participant: At the Margins Seeking Our Center: Reconfiguring Black Resistive Identities. Paper: “‘What the Women Thought’: Exploring Shifting Meanings of Female, Black Power-Era Cultural Nationalist Activism.” 38th Annual National Council for Black Studies Conference. Miami, FL. March 2014.

• Invited Panel Participant: Lessons on the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The Harvard Black Alumni Society, Atlanta Chapter. Auburn Avenue Research Library, October 2013.

• Ojelade, I., McCray, K., Meyers, J., & Ashby, J. S. (2014). “Use of Indigenous African Healing Practices as a Mental Health Intervention.” Journal of Black Psychology.

• Ojelade, I., McCray, K., Meyers, J., & Ashby, J. S. (Fall 2011). “Use of Ifa as a Means of Addressing Mental Health Concerns among African American Clients.” Journal of Counseling & Development 89, no. 4: 406-412.