Sekordri Ojo
Graduate Student
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About
Sekordri Ojo is a doctoral student in the History Department and a graduate concentrator in the Black Studies department. She was born and raised on the south side of Chicago and attended DePaul University, where she double majored in History and African & Black Diaspora studies. After graduating from DePaul, Sekordri joined Teach for America in 2014 where she taught reading and history on the south side of Chicago. Sekordri enjoys spending time with her family and her two fur babies.
Course Taught (TA):
- Fall 2022, Intro to Black Studies (BLST)- (TA for David Stovall, Ph.D.)
- Spring 2022, Intro to Black Studies (BLST)- (TA for Johari Jabir, Ph.D.)
- Fall 2021, History Internships (TA for Elizabeth Todd-Breland, Ph.D.)
- Spring 2021, Early America (History)- (TA for Hayley Negrin, Ph.D.)
- Fall 2020, Women and Gender in American History (TA for Lynn Hudson, Ph.D.)
- Spring 2020, History of Chicago (TA for Elizabeth Todd-Breland, Ph.D.)
- Fall 2019, Imagining the American West (TA for Lynn Hudson, Ph.D.)
Notable Honors
2022, President's Research in Diversity Travel Assistance Program, University of Illinois at Chicago
2022, Summer Research Grant, History Department, University of Illinois at Chicago
2022, History of Education Doctoral Summer Fellow, European Educational Research Association
2021, Grace Holt Memorial Award, Black Studies Department, University of Illinois at Chicago
2019, Diverse Leaders Fellowship, Noble Network Charter Schools
2019, Impact Teacher Leadership Fellowship, University of Chicago
2013, MLK Student Essay Contest-Best Undergraduate Paper, DePaul University
2013, Vincentian Mission Fellow, DePaul University
Education
B.A in History & African/Black Diaspora Studies, DePaul University.
M.S. in Special Education, Dominican University.
Selected Presentations
- “Edmonia Highgate: The Works, Ideas, and Doings of an Academic Liberator.” Association of Black Women Historians Symposium. University of Southern California. December 2022.
- “Black Women Intellectuals.” Feminisms Lunch Lectures. University of Illinois at Chicago. March 2021.
- “African American Women Educators: An Intellectual History.” Centering Black Women’s Intellectual Production. University of Illinois at Chicago. February 2021.
- “She Too Sits with Shakespeare and He Winces Not: The Educational Philosophy of Lucy Diggs Slowe.” Black Graduate Student Association and SACNAS Graduate Chapter Conference. February 2021.
- “Importance of Higher Education for Minority Students”, presenter at International Summer Institute Experience C.O.E Conference- Chicago, IL, 2013.
- “Access to Higher Education-McNair-International perspective”, presenter at the F.A.C.E Conference at University of Plymouth-Plymouth, England, 2013.
- “The Great Migration and the American Dream”, presenter at Student History Conference at DePaul University, 2013.
- “Future of Africa in the Global World”, presenter at African Student Panel at the Ghana Telecom University, 2012.
- “History as Tool to Empower Youth” presenter at the McNair Symposium at DePaul University, 2012.
- “Critically Thinking to Empower Youth”, presenter at the McNair Annual Conference at the University of California, Berkley, 2012.
Research Currently in Progress
Sekordri’s current research examines the intellectual contributions of African American women teachers living and teaching in the southern United States during the late 19th and early 20th century.
Advisor: Lynn Hudson
Research Interest: African American History, Black Women’s Intellectual History, History of African American Education, and Women and Gender History.