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Jeanne Theoharis
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| Occupation | Professor of Political Science |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Harvard University, University of Michigan |
| Genre | non-fiction |
| Notable awards | NAACP Image Award, Peabody Award |
| Parents | Athan Theoharis (father)[1] |
| Relatives | Liz Theoharis (sister)[2] |
Jeanne Theoharis is a Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Brooklyn College.[3]
Jeanne Theoharis was born to activist Nancy Artinian and professor Athan Theoharis. She was raised in Fox Point, Wisconsin a village in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin near the campus of Marquette University where her father taught. She has two siblings Liz Theoharis co-chair of the Poor People's Campaign, and George Theoharis a professor of education, at Syracuse University.[4]
Jeanne Theoharis graduated from Harvard College in 1991 with dual concentrations in Afro-American, and Women's Studies.[5] She then went on to pursue a PhD, at the University of Michigan in American Culture.[6][7] Theoharis is Distinguished Professorof Political ScienceatBrooklyn College at the CUNY. In her work as a political science professor she specializes in contemporary politics of race and gender, social policy, urban studies and 20th century African American history.[8] Theoharis is also the author of numerous books and articles on the Black freedom struggle, including the NAACP Image award-winning The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks and A More Beautiful and Terrible History, which won the 2018 Brooklyn Public Library Prize in Nonfiction. Theoharis' book The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks was adapted into an award-winning documentary directed by Johanna Hamilton and Yoruba Richen and executive produced by Soledad O'Brien for NBC-Peacock, where she served as a consulting producer. The documentary won a Peabody Award and a Television Academy Honor Award.
In 2013, Theoharis co-created, a roundtable discussion program entitled Conversations in Black Freedom Studies at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture with Sarah Lawrence professor Komozi Woodard, and Lehman College professor Robyn C. Spencer-Antoine. The series features a roundtable of scholars and writers on the first Thursday of each month speaking on a topic in Black history, usually centered around a new book(s) in the field.[9]
Theoharis has also worked as a faculty coleader in the Narrating Change, Changing Narratives research group of the 2014-2016 Seminar on Public Engagement and Collaborative Research.[10]
Richly informative, calmly passionate and much needed, "The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks" completes the portrait of a working-class activist who looked poverty and discrimination squarely in the face and never stopped rebelling against them, in the segregated South and in the segregated North.
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