Ansley L. Quiros
Ansley L. Quiros is an associate professor of history and chair of the Department of History at the University of North Alabama.
Dr. Quiros, an Atlanta native, is a historian of the twentieth century United States, with a focus on race, politics, and religion. After graduating from Furman University, she earned an M.A. and Ph.D. from Vanderbilt. Her first book, God With Us: Lived Theology and the Freedom Struggle in Americus, Georgia, 1942-1976 (UNC, 2018) examines the struggle over race and Christian theology in Southwest Georgia.
She is currently working on a second book: Committed: The Lives, Work and Love of Charles and Shirley Sherrod.
Along with Brian Dempsey, she co-directs the Civil Rights Struggle in the Shoals Project, a National Park Services Grant awarded to UNA in 2018. Her work has appeared in Atlanta Studies, the Activist History Review, the North Alabama Historical Review, The Gospel Coalition and the Washington Post.
Books
God With Us
Lives Theology and the Freedom Struggle in Americus, Georgia • 1942 - 1976
People Get Ready
Twelve Jesus-Haunted Misfits, Malcontents, and Dreamers in Pursuit of Justice
Lament and Justice in African American History
By the Rivers of Babylon
Public Scholarship
The Anxious Bench
Regular contributor to the blog from Patheos.com
Civil Rights Struggle in the Shoals Project
Public history project from the National Park Service and the University of North Alabama
Purpose that Prevails
Podcast with Dr. Otis Pickett with Dr. Quiros & Dr. Sam Perry about the rise of Christian nationalism
Ansley regularly addresses college and high school classes, civic organizations, and ecclesiastical groups. To inquire about speaking:
"People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them."
- James Baldwin