Shennette Garrett-Scott

Shennette Monique Garrett-Scott After obtaining her BA in Historical Studies at the University of Texas at Dallas in 2004, she moved to the University of Texas at Austin, where she obtained her MA in American History and eventually her PhD in American History, both in 2006 and 2011. Her dissertation, Daughters of Ruth: Enterprising Black Women in Insurance in the New South, 1890s to 1930s, was supervised by Juliet E. K. Walker.

After spending a year in Case Western Reserve University as a postdoctoral fellow (2012-2013), she moved to the University of Mississippi, where she was Assistant Professor in History and African American Studies until he was promoted to Associate Professor in 2019.

As an academic, she specializes in African-American women in economic history. In 2019, she published Banking on Freedom: Black Women in U.S. Finance Before the New Deal, a book on African-American women in finance during the late 19th century and early 20th century; she won the 2018 Darlene Clark Hine Award, the 2019 Letitia Woods Brown Book Award from the Association of Black Women Historians, and the 2020 Bennett H. Wall Award from the Southern Historical Society for said book. She has also worked on public broadcasting documentaries, appearing on PBS's Boss: The Black Experience in Business and working as a consultant for a Mississippi Public Broadcasting documentary on women's suffrage. She has also served as the National Vice Director of the Association of Black Women Historians. She and her husband have three children.