Her areas of research include Civil rights and Black Power, urban and working-class radicalism, and gender. Her writings on the Black Panther Party have appeared in the Journal of Women's History, Souls, Radical Teacher and many collections of essays on the 1960s. Her book The Revolution Has Come: Black Power, Gender, and the Black Panther Party in Oakland, on gender and the organizational evolution of the Black Panther Party in Oakland is forthcoming from Duke University Press in November 2016. She is a graduate of the year-long Writing Across the Curriculum Program at Lehman, a former member of the WAC Advisory Council and a supporter of many grassroots history education initiatives. (office CA-299; phone 718-960-2268; email robyn.spencer@lehman.cuny.edu)