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ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT
Associate Professor, Departments of Gender and Women’s Studies & Political Science, UW-Madison, 2018-present.
Assistant Professor, Departments of Gender and Women’s Studies & Political Science, UW-Madison, 2010-2018
Faculty Affiliate, Department of Afro-American Studies, UW-Madison, 2014-present
Anna Julia Cooper Post-Doctoral Fellow, Departments of Gender and Women’s Studies & Political Science, UW-Madison, 2009-2010
EDUCATION
University of Chicago, Ph.D. Political Science, 2009; M.A. Political Science, 2002
University of the West Indies (Mona, Jamaica), M.Sc. Development Studies, Gender and Development Concentration, 1997
Amherst College, B.A. Political Science and Black Studies, magna cum laude, 1992
PUBLICATIONS
Book
In a Classroom of Their Own: The Intersection of Race and Feminist Politics in All-Black Male Schools (University of Illinois Press, 2018).
Peer Reviewed Articles
“Jane Gordon and the Creolization of Political Theory – A Gendered Reasoning.” (forthcoming, Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture).
“The Racial Contract: A Feminist Analysis.” Politics, Groups, and Identities, 2015, 3(3): 524-540.
“Beyond ‘Model Minority,’ ‘Superwoman,’ and ‘Endangered Species’: Conceptualizing Intersectional Coalitions among Black Immigrants, African American Women, and African American Men.” Journal of African American Studies, 2015, 19(1): 18-35.
“God, Gays, and Progressive Politics: Reconceptualizing Intersectionality as a Normatively Malleable Analytical Framework.” Perspectives on Politics, June 2013, 11(2): 447-460.
Book Chapters, Review Essays, and Book Reviews
“Black Women and the Intersectional Politics of Experience.” Forthcoming, Politics & Gender (symposium on Bell Hooks’ Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center) 2019.
Review of Intimate Justice: The Black Female Body and the Body Politic, Feminist Formations, 2018, 30(1): 293-295.
“Freedom, Marronage, and the Politics of Experience." Theory & Event, 2017, 20(1): 207-211.
Review of Carol Hardy-Fanta’s (ed.) Intersectionality and Politics and Dara Z. Strolovitch’s Affirmative Advocacy, International Feminist Journal of Politics, 2009, 11(4): 595-597.
“Bob Marley and the Politics of Subversion.” (with Louis Lindsay) in Bob Marley: The Man & His Music. Eleanor Wint (ed.), Kingston, Jamaica: Arawak Publications, 2003, 76-81.
“Is the Caribbean Male an Endangered Species?” in Gendered Realities: Essays in Caribbean Feminist Thought. Patricia Mohammed (ed.), Mona, Jamaica: University of the West Indies Press, 2002, 56-82.
WORK IN PROGRESS
Black Ladies and the Art of Resistance: Intellectuals, Athletes, and Beauty Queens. Book manuscript. (Prospectus available upon request).
“Theorizing the Intersection of Race, Gender, and Geography in the Americas.” Essay submitted for inclusion in a symposium on Juliet Hooker’s Theorizing Race in the Americas.
“Political Theory.” Textbook chapter in progress. Political Science is for Everybody. University of Toronto Press.
SELECTED HONORS, GRANTS, AND AWARDS
Alex Willingham Best Political Theory Paper Award, National Conference of Black Political Scientists, 2019
Mentoring Undergraduates in Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activities Award, UW-Madison, 2018
Hilldale Faculty Research Award, UW-Madison, 2017
Chancellor's Inclusive Excellence Teaching Award, UW-Madison, 2016
Nancy Weiss Malkiel Junior Faculty Fellowship (Semi-finalist), 2016
Vilas Life Cycle Award, UW-Madison, 2015
Anonymous Fund Institutional Grant for “Gendering and Queering the African Diaspora”; Speaker Series, UW- Madison, 2013
Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity Sabbatical Fellowship, Institute for Research in the Humanities, UW-Madison, 2013
Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship (Alternate), 2013
American Association of University Women Summer Research Publication Grant (Alternate), 2010
Consortium for Faculty Diversity Post-Doctoral Fellowship/The College of Wooster (Declined), 2009
Trustees Fellowship, University of Chicago, 2008-2009; 2000-2005
Diversifying Higher Education Faculty in Illinois Graduate Fellowship, 2005-2008
Patricia Lynn Baker Memorial Prize, Best M.A. Paper in the Social Sciences Division, University of Chicago, 2002
Community Leadership Award, University of Chicago Community Service Center, 2002