Contributing Authors
- Contributing Authors
kelly duke bryant is an associate professor of history at Rowan University in Glassboro, New Jersey. Her research focuses on Senegal and has examined the history of French colonial schooling, the emergence of electoral politics within African communities, and the influence of race on certain kinds of family relationships. Her first book, Education as Politics: Colonial Schooling and Political Debate in Senegal, 1850s-1914, was published in 2015, and she is currently working on a new book on the history of children and youth in colonial Senegal. Her research articles have appeared in journals including The Journal of African History and the Journal of Family History, and she has contributed chapters to several edited collections.
sonya donaldson is an associate professor of English at New Jersey City University. She is currently developing a book manuscript, "Irreconcilable Differences? Memory, History, and the Echoes of Diaspora," and producing a digital humanities project, "Singing the Nation into Being: Anthems and the Politics of Black Performance." Her scholarly interests include African Diaspora studies, black European studies, digital humanities, film, and music. In addition to her work in academia, she is also a former journalist and served as the technology editor at Black Enterprise magazine. Her writing has been featured in Callaloo, African and Black Diaspora: An International Journal, and The Feminist Wire. She is a recipient of a Woodrow Wilson Postdoctoral Fellowship for Junior Faculty (2016–17).
corinne t. field is an associate professor in the Department of Women, Gender and Sexuality at the University of Virginia and the Mellon-Schlesinger Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. She is currently completing a monograph titled Grand Old Women and Modern Girls: Age, Race, and Power in the U.S. Women's Rights Movement, 1870 to 1920 and co-editing (with LaKisha Simmons) an interdisciplinary anthology on the global history of black girlhood. She is the author of The Struggle for Equal Adulthood: Gender, Race, Age, and the Fight for Citizenship in Antebellum America (2014) and co-editor (with Nicholas Syrett) of Age in America: Colonial Era to the Present (2015). Field is the co-founder of the History of Black Girlhood Network, an informal collaboration of scholars working to promote research into the historical experience of black girls. She was the co-organizer of the Global History of Black Girlhood Conference held at the University of Virginia, April 17–18, 2017. [End Page 102]
kai m. green is a shape-shifting black queer nerd: an Afro-futurist, freedom-dreaming, rhyme-slinging dragon slayer in search of a new world. A scholar, poet, facilitator, and filmmaker, Dr. Green is an assistant professor of women's, gender and sexuality studies at Williams College. Dr. Green has published in numerous scholarly journals including GLQ, South Atlantic Quarterly, Black Camera, and TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly. He co-edited a special issue of TSQ on "Black Studies/Trans* Studies."
ashleigh greene wade finished her PhD in the Department of Women's and Gender Studies at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. A former high school teacher, her primary research seeks to understand technology practices among black girls in connection with cultural production, critical black feminisms, and digital humanities. Wade is currently an assistant professor of English and African American studies at Pennsylvania State University. Please direct any correspondence to ashleighrwade@gmail.com.
tammy c. owens is an assistant professor of ethnic studies and childhood studies at Hampshire College. Owens earned a PhD in American studies from the University of Minnesota and an MA in women's studies from the University of Alabama. Owens's forthcoming monograph, Young Revolutionaries: Black Girls and the Fight for Girlhood from Slavery to #Sayhername, focuses on the ways black girls and women use fiction and personal narratives as creative sites to theorize their own transitions from girlhood to womanhood. Her essays have been published in the Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth and Departures in Critical Qualitative Research.
lakisha michelle simmons is an assistant professor of history and women's studies at University of Michigan. She is the author of Crescent City Girls: The Lives of Young Black Women in Segregated New Orleans (2015), which won the SAWH...
