Stacey Akines

Graduate Student

Stacey Akines is a Ph.D. candidate in the history department at Carnegie Mellon University where she studies Black educational history and Black intellectual traditions, 20 th century urban history, and the power dynamics involving slavery (and its afterlives), Black Reconstruction(s), and Jim Crow(s) in the United States. Her research traces the intellectual history of Black home education and ideas of Black home education in 20 th century America. Stacey is a visiting Student Fellow at the University of Pittsburgh’s Center for Urban Education and has worked with Carnegie Mellon’s Center for Africanamerican Urban Studies and the Economy (CAUSE) as a research assistant for Pittsburgh’s “Crafting Democratic Futures Project” with Principal Investigator Dr. Joe W. Trotter, Jr.

Education

• Ph.D., History, Carnegie Mellon University (expected Spring 2026) Dissertation: “Black Home Education: An Intellectual History” Primary Advisor: Dr. Nico Slate
• M.A., History, Carnegie Mellon University, 2022
• B.S., Biology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 2001

Teaching Experience

Assistant Instructor, “Jim Crow America,” Department of History, Carnegie Mellon University (Spring 2024)
Co-Instructor, “Black Educational Thought,” Center for Urban Education, The University of Pittsburgh (Spring 2024)
Co-Instructor, “African American History, Race, and the Fight for Reparations in National and Transnational Perspective Department of History,” Department of History, Carnegie Mellon University (Fall 2023)
Teaching Observer, “African American History: Blacks in the World” (Fall 2023)

Research Experience

Research Assistant, Crafting Democratic Futures, Carnegie Mellon University, Primary Investigator: Dr. Joe W Trotter (Fall 2021-Fall 2023)

Fellowships, Grants, and Awards

Milton A. and Nancy D. Washington Fellowship Award, Department of History, Carnegie Mellon University (Summer 2024)
August Wilson Archive Research Award (Spring 2024)
Visiting Student Fellow, Center for Urban Education, The University of Pittsburgh (2023-2024)

Publications

Akines, S.L. (proposed). “Pittsburgh Street Academy 1969-1973.” In Joe W. Trotter, Forthcoming Book Project.
Akines, S.L. (accepted). “Teaching Desegregation: African American Community Education and the Pittsburgh Courier 1954-1956, Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies.
Akines, S.L. (in press). “Liberation is Yet to Come: An Interview with Stacey Akines.” In J. Z. Bennett, C. L. McGuire, L. Delale-O’Connor, T. E. Dancy II, and S. E. Vaught (Eds.). Elegies, futurities, and now: Anti-carceral freedom struggles in urban Appalachia. University Press of Kentucky.
Akines, S.L. (accepted). “Heart of the Summer: Intergenerational Knowledge Transfer in Black Home Education Praxis.” Negro Education Review.

Invited Lectures, Talks, and Conversations

Guest Lecturer, “Educational Inequalities and the Case for Reparations,” African American History: Blacks in the World (Undergraduate), Carnegie Mellon University, History Department, Pittsburgh, PA (Fall 2023)
Guest Lecturer, “Making and Presenting Research Posters at Academic Conferences,” Poverty in America (Graduate), Alvernia University, Program in Leadership, Reading, PA (Summer, 2023)

Conferences and Workshops

Panelist, “Revealing Black Educational Histories: A Historiography of ‘Unthinkable’ Framework Possibilities,” American Educational Research Association Conference, Philadelphia, PA (April 13, 2024)
Panelist, “Reparations and Black Teacher Re-education,” Reparations and the Right to the City, Urban History Association, Pittsburgh, PA (October 27, 2023)
Poster Presenter, “Black Homeschooling: New Phenomenon or Persistent Fugitive Pedagogy?” The Pandemic Divide Conference, Samuel Dubois Cook Center on Social Equity, Duke University (October 25-27, 2022)
Panelist, “Insurgent Knowledges: Homeschooling as Resistance,” Beyond "the Crisis": Education for Local and Global Liberation, Center for Urban Education Summer Educator Forum, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA (June 22-25, 2022)

Webinars, Podcasts, and Media Appearances

The Persistence of Slavery with Robin Phylisia Chapdelaine, Interview Podcast, The Society for the History of Children and Youth (January 2023)
https://shcy.pinecast.co/episode/21fb8d44/the-persistence-of-slavery

Professional and Academic Organizations

American Educational Research Association
Association for the Study of African American Life and History

Research Interests

Black Intellectual History; Black Educational History; Black Revolutionary Traditions in Education; Black Reconstruction; 20th Century Urban/ Suburban History; African American Transnational History; Wilsonian Historical Pedagogical Tradition

Advisor
Nico Slate