Dr. Ann Carver

Dr. Ann Carver served as a faculty member of the English Department until she retired from UNC Charlotte in 1990. Dr. Carver was the former chair of the Black Studies Committee, which selected Dr. Bertha Maxwell Roddey as the first director of UNC Charlotte’s Black Studies Program in 1969. In spring 1975, a group of female students approached Dr. Carver about their desire for a Women’s Studies program. After decades of negotiation and planning, UNC Charlotte approved the concentration in Women’s Studies in the spring of 1984. Dr. Carver became the first Coordinator of UNC Charlotte’s Women’s Studies Program.