About the Contributors
- About the Contributors
dann J. Broyld is a visiting assistant professor of Public History & African American History at Central Connecticut State University.. He earned his PhD in nineteenth-century United States and African Diaspora history at Howard University in 2011. His dissertation entitled “Borderland Blacks: Rochester, New York and St. Catharines, Ontario, 1850-1860” has been accepted to the University of Toronto Press for publication. The study focuses on the American-Canadian borderlands and issues of black identity, migration, and transnational relations.
Brittney Cooper is assistant professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and Africana Studies at Rutgers. She specializes in black feminist theory, black women’s intellectual history, hip hop feminism and race and gender representations in popular culture. She is also a regular contributor to Salon.com.
Alexis Pauline Gumbs is a queer black troublemaker, a black feminist love evangelist, a time traveller/space cadet, a prayer-poet priestess and an afro-Caribbean granddaughter growing. Alexis has a PhD in English, Africana Studies and Women’s Studies from Duke University and was the first researcher to work the archival papers of Audre Lorde, June Jordan and Lucille Clifton. Alexis is the founder of the Eternal Summer of the Black Feminist Mind intergalactic community school, the director of Brilliance Remastered, a service to support community accountable intellectuals, and the co-founder of the Mobile Homecoming experiential archive project amplifying generations of queer black brilliance.
Janell Hobson is an associate professor in the Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University at Albany, SUNY. She received her Ph.D. in Women’s Studies at Emory University and is the author of two books: Body as Evidence: Mediating Race, Globalizing Gender and Venus in the Dark: Blackness and Beauty in Popular Culture. She is also a writer and blogger for Ms. Magazine and The Feminist Wire, and the lead organizer of the Harriet Tubman: A Legacy of Resistance symposium, which celebrated the 100th anniversary passing of Tubman in 2013.
Jessica M. Johnson, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of History at Michigan State University. Her research interests include Atlantic African diaspora, women, gender, and sexuality during the period of Atlantic [End Page 225] slavery, slavery in history and memory, digital media-making, social media, and digital history.
Kate Clifford Larson, PhD.,is an historian, leading Harriet Tubman scholar, and the author of Bound For the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman, Portrait of an American Hero (Ballantine/One World, 2004). She specializes in 19th and 20th century U.S. Women’s and African American History, and teaches part time at Simmons College in Boston. Dr. Larson has also served as the consulting historian for the National Park Service’s Harriet Tubman Special Resource Study, resulting in legislation for the Harriet Tubman National Historical Park Act, now awaiting approval in Congress. Most recently, her work supported the establishment of the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Monument in Dorchester County, Maryland, created by President Obama’s Executive Order in March. Dr. Larson’s other books are The Assassin’s Apprentice: Mary Surratt and the Plot to Kill Abraham Lincoln (Basic Books, 2008) and Rosemary: An Interrupted Life (Houghton Mifflin, forthcoming).
Treva B. Lindsey, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at The Ohio State University. Her research interests include African American women’s history, black popular and expressive culture, black feminism(s), hip hop studies, critical race and gender theory, and sexual politics.
Vivian M. May, Associate Professor of Women’s & Gender Studies at Syracuse University, is author of Pursuing Intersectionality, Unsettling Dominant Imaginaries (Routledge, 2015), Anna Julia Cooper, Visionary Black Feminist (Routledge, 2007), and numerous articles and chapters focused on black feminist intellectual history, feminist theory and literature, and theorizing women’s studies as a field.
Karsonya (Kaye) Wise Whitehead is assistant professor of Communication and African and African American Studies at Loyola University Maryland, an award-winning K-12 Master Teacher and Curriculum Writers in African American History, and a three-time New York Emmy-nominated documentary filmmaker. She is the author of several book chapters, articles, opinion editorials, and three books: Notes from a Colored Girl: The Civil War Pocket...
