Ashley Everson is an Assistant Professor in the Department of African American and Africana Studies (AAAS). She received her Ph.D. in Africana Studies from Brown University in 2025. Her research interests include Black feminist thought, political theory, labor history, and Black women’s political histories. Her most recent research seeks to investigate the relationship between Black political mobilization in the Tennessee Valley region and decolonial organizing throughout the African Diaspora during the interwar period. Her research has been published in the premier journal of literature, art and culture in the African Diaspora, Callaloo Literary Journal, and Black Perspectives, the award winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS). She serves as a managing editor of Global Black Thought, the official journal of the AAIHS.