Karen Kossie-Chernyshev is a fifth-generation Texan and the first African-American woman to earn a Ph.D. in the field of history from a Texas institution (Rice University). Her research focuses on African American women’s intellectual history, African American religion, and topics in the African Diaspora. Her edited works include Recovering Five Generations Hence: The Life and Writing of Lillian Jones Horace (Texas A & M University Press, 2013) and Angie Brown (Outskirts Press, 2017). Dr. Kossie-Chernyshev is also the founding director of SWATH, an interdisciplinary summer workshop on African American Texas History for local K-16 teachers: www.swathonline.org.