Dr. Cynthia Patterson is an Associate Professor at the University of South Florida Tampa campus, and the former co-editor of the journal American Periodicals. Her first book, Art for the Middle Classes: America's Illustrated Magazines of the 1840s, was published by the University Press of Mississippi. Invited book chapters appeared in The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture, Volume 5: US Popular Print Culture to 1860 (Oxford University Press, 2019) and The Routledge Handbook of Magazine Research: The Future of the Magazine Form (2015). Her latest book, Race Literature: Women Contributors to the A.M.E. Church Review 1884 - 1924 is currently in production with the University Press of Mississippi. Dr. Patterson's interdisciplinary research has also appeared in the Journal of African American History, Women's Studies, American Periodicals, the Journal of American Studies,The Southern Quarterly, and the Florida Historical Quarterly. Her work on Florida women's clubs during the Progressive Era was featured in a podcast: Florida Historical Quarterly: Episode 35: Fall 2017 on Apple Podcasts. Her latest book project, Race Literature: Women Contributors to the A.M.E. Church Review 1884 - 1924, received funding from an Andrew W. Mellon Residential Research Fellowship at The Library Company of Philadelphia and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, where Dr. Patterson was in residence July-August 2021. A side project on the Black Chautauqua movement received residential research funding from the Kentucky Historical Society (KHS) for summer 2022, leading to a KHS podcast Kentucky Chronicles, Vol. 1, No. 7 (February 2024), with host, Dr. Daniel Burge, "Owensboro's Black Chautauqua," and a forthcoming article in the Journal of African American History. This research forms the nucleus for Dr. Patterson's new book project on the Black Chautauqua movement nationwide and garnered two additional research fellowships: from the American Antiquarian Society and the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives and Rare Books Library at Emory University.