MUSE • Musicians United for Social Equity

Biography

Paula Marie Seniors, is an associate professor at Virginia Tech and the biographer of her family’s legacy Mae Mallory, the Monroe Defense Committee and World Revolutions: African American Women Radical Activists, forthcoming University of Georgia Press, fall 2022. She is the co-author of Michelle Obama’s Impact on African American Women and Girls, Palgrave MacMillan, 2018 in which her chapter “Reconfiguring Black Motherhood: Michelle Obama and the Mom in Charge Trope” appears.  She won the Letitia Woods Brown Memorial Prize, from The Association of Black Women Historians for Beyond Lift Every Voice and Sing: The Culture of Uplift, Identity and Politics in Black Musical Theater. Seniors is currently working on two manuscripts African American Women Wept: Police, State, and White Supremacist Violence Against African American Girls and Women Before and During the Grand Global Apocalyptic Pandemic and Scott Joplin’s Treemonisha, A Soul Evening: The 1972 Atlanta, Georgia World Premiere, its Orchestrator T.J. Anderson and The Aftermath, under review