Ava Purkiss
Ava Purkiss is assistant professor of women’s and gender studies and American culture at the University of Michigan, and the author of Fit Citizens: A History of Black Women’s Exercise from Post-Reconstruction to Postwar America.
Ava Purkiss is assistant professor of women’s and gender studies and American culture at the University of Michigan, and the author of Fit Citizens: A History of Black Women’s Exercise from Post-Reconstruction to Postwar America.
Roundtable
How Black women used exercise to achieve civic goals in the late nineteenth century. More