 Four years later, Mevorach earned a PhD in Cultural Anthropology from Duke University.In January 1996, she was invited to Grinnell College as a Scholar-in-Residence and joined as an assistant professor the following year.She served as Chair of the Africana Studies Concentration from 1996–2000 and in 2003 helped initiate the transition of Africana Studies into an expanded American Studies Concentration, serving as the new Chair between 2004 and 2005.