Pamela Scully

Pamela was a member of the SURVIVORS documentary humanities advisor committee. Since then we have formed a formal partnership with Emory University developing the WeSurvive oral histories project. We feel lucky to have her on the team are grateful for her invaluable input and guidance to our work

Pamela Scully is Vice Provost for Undergraduate Affairs at Emory University, Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and Professor of African Studies. She has her Ph.D. in history from the University of Michigan. Her research interests focus on comparative women's and gender history, with an emphasis on slavery and emancipation, and, more recently, on biography and on sexual violence in wartime and in post-conflict societies. She is the author of Liberating the Family? Gender and British Slave Emancipation in the Rural Western Cape, South Africa, 1823-1853 (Heinemann, 1997). She is the author of the AHA pamphlet, Race and Ethnicity in Women's and Gender History in Global Perspective (2006). Professor Scully is working on humanitarian interventions, transitional justice, and sexual violence, with a focus on Liberia, and has published various chapters and articles on the topic. She is also involved in various research collaborations on Ebola. Professor Scully’s deep understanding of African history, post-conflict societies, and culture in the subregion, make her an ideal partner to have on board as we think about how best to frame this story in a global context. She will not only be advising us as we go through the process of shaping the documentary via feedback during editing, but she will also be an essential partner as we develop our educational outreach material.