Dr. Ashley D. Farmer is a historian of Black women’s history, intellectual history, and radical politics and an associate professor in the Departments of History and African and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of Remaking Black Power: How Black Women Transformed an Era and the forthcoming biography Queen Mother Audley Moore: Mother of Black Nationalism. Farmer’s scholarship has appeared in numerous venues, including The Black Scholar and The Journal of African American History. Her research has also been featured in several popular outlets, including Harper’s Bazaar, NPR, and the Washington Post. She used the National Archives to complete her next book, Gendering Surveillance: African American Women Activists and the FBI.