Ava Purkiss

I am a third year U.S. history student and my area of research is African American women’s health and physical culture in the early twentieth century. I am interested in the economic, political, and social barriers to exercise for African American women and the ways in which they circumvented these barriers and sought health and fitness. I earned my B.A. in psychology from Dickinson College and my M.A. in African New World Studies from Florida International University.