REDEFINING CLASSICS

Angel Adams Parham is a sociology professor at the University of
Virginia who is passionate about education across the K-16 educational
spectrum. Her research and teaching are inspired by classical
philosophies of living and learning that emphasize the pursuit of truth,
goodness, and beauty. She homeschooled her daughters for thirteen
years, and is the co-founder and executive director of Nyansa Classical
Community , an educational non-profit focused on K-12 students which
provides lower and upper school curricula in the humanities to schools
and homeschools. Nyansa curricula and programs are designed to
connect with students from diverse backgrounds, inviting them to take
part in the Great Conversation, cultivate the moral imagination, and
pursue truth, goodness, and beauty. Parham is the co-author (with
Anika Prather) of The Black Intellectual Tradition: Reading Freedom in
Classical Literature, published with Classical Academic Press (2022).
She is also the President of the Board of Academic Advisors for the
Classic Learning Test (CLT) which takes an approach to academic
testing that seeks to reconnect knowledge and virtue. Parham
completed her B.A. in sociology at Yale University and her M.S. and
Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.