About Audrey Thomas McCluskey, Ph.D.
Audrey Thomas McCluskey is professor emerita at Indiana University-Bloomington where she taught and conducted research in several fields including Gender Studies,African American Cultural History ,Media, Representation, and the lives and work of Black women educators. Her academic work has centered on African American cultural history, media representation, and the lives of Black women educators. As a writer, educator, and public intellectual, she has played a vital role in illuminating the often-overlooked contributions of Black Americans, particularly women, to the nation’s educational and social foundations.
Born and raised in the segregated South, Audrey experienced firsthand the systemic limitations placed on Black communities. Yet those same communities—rich in culture, faith, tradition, and resilience—were the soil in which her intellectual life took root. She credits these formative experiences as the foundation of both her scholarly and creative pursuits.
