Elizabeth Higginbotham is a professor of Sociology at the University of Delaware with joint appointments in Black American Studies and Women’s Studies. She is a social scientist trained at Brandeis University with a board interest in American Studies and culture. At the Center for Research on Women at the University of Memphis, she was active in developing programming that brought issues of race and gender to the public. In addition to her academic accomplishments, like her book, Too Much to Ask: Black Women in the Era of Integration (University of North Carolina Press, 2001), Higginbotham has been active since 2007 on the Council for the Delaware Humanities Forum.