Overview
Shealyn Fraser is a first-year PhD student in the Department of History at Duke University. Her research interests include urban Black women's movement toward economic survival in Northern cities from the 19th and early 20th centuries. Before starting at Duke, Shealyn was a Research Assistant at the John W. Kluge Center of the Library of Congress in Washington D.C. to Dr. Tamika Nunley, examining enslaved Black women's knowledge of the law and reproductive rights. She received her Bachelor's and Master of Arts in American Studies from George Washington University.