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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.” Philosophy and Global Affairs 2021, 1(2): 333-341.
“Amy Bailey, Black Ladyhood, and 1950s Jamaica.” Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism 2020, 63(11): 128-142.
“Black on Red: Racing and Gendering 19th and 20th Century African Americans’ Interpretative Uses of Native American Political Experience.” Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics, 2019, 4(2): 324-351. Joint with Jane Gordon.
“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 Other Publications
Contributing Author, Talking About Black Lives Matter and Me Too. Lolita Buckner Inniss & Bridget J. Crawford eds. University of California Press (forthcoming 2022).
“Political Theory” Political Science is for Everybody: An Introduction to Political Science. Amy Atchinson ed. University of Toronto Press, (forthcoming 2021).
“Talking About Black Lives Matter and #MeToo.” Wisconsin Journal of Law, Gender & Society, 2019 34(2): 109-178. Joint with Bridget Crawford, Linda Greene, Lolita Buckner Inniss, Mehrsa Baradaran, Noa Ben-Asher, Bennett Capers, and Osamudia James.
“Black Women and the Intersectional Politics of Experience.” Politics & Gender, 2019, 15(4): 20-23. Symposium on Bell Hooks’ Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center.
“Juxtaposition, Hemispheric Thought, and the Bounds of Political Theory: Juliet Hooker’s Theorizing Race in the Americas.” Contemporary Political Theory, 2019, 18: 604–639. Joint with Neil Roberts, Anne Norton, James Martel, Inés Valdez, and Juliet Hooker.
“Freedom, Marronage, and the Politics of Experience." Theory & Event, 2017, 20(1): 207-211.
“Audre Lorde.” The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology. Edited by George Ritzer and Michael Ryan. Oxford, Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2013.
“Exploring the When, Where, and Why of the 'Politics' in Sexuality and Politics' Teaching and Research.” American Political Science Association Sexuality and Politics Newsletter, March-April 2012, 5(1): 7-9.
“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.
SELECTED HONORS, GRANTS, AND AWARDS
Villas Associates Award, UW-Madison, 2020
Borghesi-Mellon Workshop Fellowship – “Black Feminisms Now” (with Cherene Sherrard and Brittney Edmonds), UW-Madison, 2020
Michael Harrington Book Award. Caucus for a New Political Science, American Political Science Association, 2019.
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, “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