Dr. Allida Black is a historian. Currently, she is a Professor of History at The George Washington University and a Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the Miller Center for the Study of the Presidency at the University of Virginia.Black is also Editor and Board Chair of The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers, a project she designed to preserve, teach and apply Roosevelt's discussions of human rights. Until 2024, she also served as a Senior Fellow at the Women’s Research and Education Institute.Black has written or edited ten books on women, politics, and human rights.