Assistant Professor of Africana Studies, Cultures, Societies, and Global Studies, and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Research Topics:
- Activism
- African American Studies
- Digital Humanities
- Disability Studies
- History of Medicine
- Media Studies & Popular Culture
- Queer Theory/Sexuality Studies
- Women’s and Gender Studies
Current Research Project:
- Black Feminist Health Science Studies (BFHSS)
- Misogynoir Transformed: Black Women’s Digital Resistance
- Octavia E. Butler Legacy Network
Recent News/Publications/Talks:
- 2020-2021 MLK Visiting Professor at MIT
- The Hollywood Reporter, From ‘Justice League’ to ‘Star Wars,’ Studios Reckon with “Toxic” Fandom
- #HashtagActivism: Networks of Race and Gender Justice
- #ActivismTalk
- Bailey, Moya. A Radical Reckoning: A Black woman’s racial revenge in Black Mirror’s “Black Museum.” Feminist Media Studies, DOI: 10.1080/14680777.2020.1736120
- Mashable, “Why you need to know what ‘misogynoir’ means right now,” featured interview, April 7.
Affiliated Research Centers:
- Center for International Affairs & World Cultures
- NU Humanities Center
- The Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project
- NULab for Texts, Maps, and Networks
- UPenn Center on Digital Culture and Society
- Signs: Journal of Women in Society & Culture
- Center for Critical Race and Digital Studies
Undergraduate Research Projects:
- 2019 -Present Rosemary Ajegwu, we are more than bodies, Engineering Major
- 2016 – 2017 Arcus Queer Community Grant Advisor for Nolan Tesis, English