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Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor is an associate professor of history at Smith College, focusing specifically on African American activism in the 19th century and how historical ideologies on race inform contemporary discourse. Her research centers on the etymology of the N-word and the complicated and corrosive idea behind it.
Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor. Associate Professor of History. Contact. epryor@smith.edu. 413-585-3701. 10 Prospect Street #304. Biography. Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor specializes in 19th-century U.S. history and race.
Historian Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor leads a thoughtful and history-backed examination of one of the most divisive words in the English language: the N-word. Drawing from personal experience, she explains how reflecting on our points of encounter with the word can help promote productive discussions and, ultimately, create a framework that reshapes education around the complicated history of ...
Mar 17, 2021 · Published March 17, 2021. Associate Professor of History Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor will never forget the first time she heard a student use the N-word. It was in 2010, in a class about the Civil War and the period surrounding it. Part of her lecture was about the bias that African Americans in the 1850s sometimes exhibited toward Chinese immigrants.
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Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor, Ph.D, is an associate professor of history at Smith College. Dr. Pryor is the author of an award winning article, “The Etymology of [N-Word]: Resistance, Language and the Politics of Freedom in the Antebellum North” and 2016’s monograph Colored Travelers: Mobility and the Fight for Citizenship before the Civil War.
