‘Tiffany R. Patterson’

Group photo of faculty at the dedication of Vanderbilt's Callie House Research Center: Vanderbilt's Houston Baker, Tiffany Patterson, Tracy Sharpley-Whiting, Allice Randall, and Gilman Whiting, and University of Pennsylvania's Mary Frances Berry, all dressed in black, gray, and white

Tiffany Ruby Patterson: Raising the voices of the unheard

Feb. 17, 2021—From a young age, Associate Professor of African American and Diaspora Studies Tiffany Ruby Patterson loved to learn. She read voraciously throughout her childhood: a set of World Book encyclopedias purchased by her uncle, an entire library left behind by the former owner of her family’s apartment building. That early love of books continued into...