Monica Perkins

Monica Perkins
Monica Ugwu Perkins is a PhD candidate in the Higher Education/Student Affairs concentration within the School of Educational Studies at Claremont Graduate University (CGU). She also completed certificates in Women’s and Gender Studies and Preparing Future Faculty. Her research interrogates the confluence of race, gender, socioeconomic status, and systems of oppression in twentieth-century medicine and medical education, focusing on the intellectual history of Black women physicians in the American West. Her dissertation, Toward Black Feminist Thought in the Histories of Medicine and Medical Education in California, centers California’s earliest Black women physicians and sets forth an archival research methodology grounded in Black Feminist Thought that validates Black women’s standpoint as justifiable knowledge that is necessary for the advancement of scholarship within the histories of United States medicine and medical education. Research Topic: Monica’s research interrogates the confluence of race, gender, socioeconomic status, and systems of oppression in twentieth-century medicine and medical education, focusing on the intellectual history of Black women physicians in the American West.