Rachel Martin
Senior Consultant
EmailEducation
- University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill, PhD in Women’s and Gender History
- Middle Tennessee State University, MA in Southern History
- Taylor University, BA in English/Creative Writing and Biblical Literature
About Rachel
Rachel Louise Martin studies the ordinary people from tiny places who found ways to change the world. Trained in oral history at UNC’s Southern Oral History Program, she specializes in finding the people left out of the archival record. She has taught classes in civil rights history, oral history and public history at the University of Massachusetts – Amherst and Middle Tennessee State University. She is also the author of Hot, Hot Chicken: A Nashville Story (Vanderbilt University Press, 2021) and A Most Tolerant Little Place: The Explosive Beginning of School Desegregation (Simon & Schuster, 2023). Her essays have appeared in The Atlantic online, Oxford American, O, the Oprah Magazine, CityLab and elsewhere.