Nancy Tolson

Nancy D Tolson is assistant director of the African American Studies Program at the University of South Carolina. Thanks to her parents, she was raised on Black literature and culture. Nancy has a M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Iowa, researching the history and development of Black children’s literature and folklore. Tolson has been a Ford Fellow, NEH facilitator, Fulbright scholar/lecturer at the University of Cape Coast (Ghana), an Illinois Humanities’ “Road Scholar” and presently with the South Carolina Speakers Bureau: Humanities Out Loud. She is storyteller and proudly participates in the Augusta Baker’s Dozen Storytelling Festival (Columbia, SC). She is a commissioner as well as a docent for the Columbia Museum of Art. Her critical work and creative work can be found in several books, various academic journals, and a couple of walls. Nancy and her husband have been successfully raised by their three children and are now being empowered by their five grandsons.