Ula Y. Taylor earned her doctorate in American History from UC Santa Barbara. She is the co-author of Panther: The Illustrated History of the Black Panther Movement and the Story Behind the Film. She teaches two required history courses in African American Studies and courses such as the Civil Rights Movement of the 60's and African American Women's History.

Professor Taylor has taught aspects of economic, political, and cultural African American history from Colonial times to the present at Chapman College, Antelope Valley Community College, and to inmates at Lompoc Penitentiary. She also taught a course on group exploration of racism which focused on the effects of cultural, institutional and individual racism on people living in the United States at the University of California at Santa Barbara.

PUBLICATIONS
Books

• Ula Y. Taylor, J. Tarika Lewis, and Mario Van Pebbles, Panther: A Pictorial History of the Black Panthers and the Story Behind the Film (New York: Newmarket Press, 1995).

• Ula Y. Taylor, The Veiled Garvey: The Life and Times of Amy Jacques Garvey (North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press, August, 2002).

• Ula Y. Taylor, Re-Gendering a Nation: A History of the Nation of Islam (In Progress).

Articles

• Ula Y. Taylor, "Amy Jacques Garvey: Community Feminist," Journal of Women's Historyvol.12, no.2 (Spring 2000).

• Ula Y. Taylor, "Read[ing] Men and Nations: Women in the Black Radical Tradition" Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics. Culture and Society, vol. 1, no.4 (Fall, 1999).

• Ula Y. Taylor, "Proposition 209 and the Affirmative Action Debate on the University of California Campuses," Feminist Studies. vol. 25, no. I (Spring, 1999).

• Ula Y. Taylor, "Me Historical Evolution of Black Feminist Theory and Praxis," Journal of Black Studies, vol. 29, no.2 (November, 1998).

• Ula Y. Taylor, "Intellectual Pan-African Feminists: Amy Ashwood-Garvey and Amy Jacques Garvey," ABAFAZI: The Simmons College Journal of Women of African Descent, vol. 9, no. I (Fall/Winter, 1998).

• Ula Y. Taylor, "As-Salaam Alaikum, My Sister: The Honorable Elijah Muhammad and the Women Who Followed Him," Race & Society vol. l, no.2, (Spring, 1998).

• Ula Y. Taylor, "Making Waves: The Theory and Practice of Black Feminism," The Black Scholar vol. 28, no. 2 (Summer, 1998).

• Ula Y. Taylor, "Amy Jacques Garvey (1896-1973)," in Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought (New York: The New Press, 1995).

Biographical Entries

• Ula Y. Taylor, "Amy Jacques Garvey," in Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History, Vol. 2 (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1996).

• Ula Y. Taylor, "Amy Jacques Garvey," in African American Women: A Biographical Dictionary (New York: Garland Pub., 1994).

• Ula Y. Taylor, "Amy Jacques Garvey," in Black Women in United States History and Encyclopedia (Brooklyn, New York: Carlson, Pub., 1993).

Book Reviews

• Ula Y. Taylor, "Skin Deep: Women Writing on Color, Culture, and Identity," in Black Scholar (September, 1996).

• Ula Y. Taylor, "Raising Her Voice: African-American Women Journalist Who Changed History," Journal of American History (June, 1995.)

HONORS INCLUDE:

• Ford Foundation Minority Dissertation Fellowship

• University of California Presidential Dissertation Fellowship

• Interdisciplinary Humanities Grant

• Graduate Opportunity Fellowship

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