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K. Melchor Quick Hall

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K. Melchor Quick Hall (she/her/hers) is the author of Naming a Transnational Black Feminist Framework: Writing in Darkness and the co-editor, with Gwyn Kirk, of Mapping Gendered Ecologies: Engaging with and beyond Ecowomanism and Ecofeminism. She is a popular educator who works with students of all ages. Melchor is also the Interim Executive Director of African American Education & Research Organization (AAERO) and Melchor-Quick Meeting House (MQMH), both organizations founded by her mother. Through Pendle Hill Quaker Conference and Retreat Center, she co-facilitates a writing workshop for people of color and a reparations workshop for US-based, white inheritors of wealth. Read more about her work at https://www.writingindarkness.org/ and https://mappinggenderedecologies.org/.

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  • Education

    PhD (with distinction), International Relations, American University, 2014
    MA, International Communication, American University, 2013
    MS, Computer and Information Sciences, Temple University, 2003
    BA, Sarah Lawrence College, Mathematics concentration, 2000

  • Contact

    ki.hall@northeastern.edu

Courses

Course catalog

Gender, Social Justice, and Transnational Activism

WMNS/POLS/SOCL 3100

Introduces key issues, themes, and debates in feminist transnational theory, practice, and activism in contemporary contexts and how it has changed under socioeconomic, political, and cultural processes of globalization. Offers students an opportunity to discuss the impact of globalization, neoliberalism, and state and intimate violence on gendered politics and relations and to contend with the politics of difference, to debate its challenges, and to imagine possible futures for transnational gender justice.

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K. Melchor ’s Colleagues

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Nicole Aljoe

Professor of English and Africana Studies
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Amílcar Antonio Barreto

Professor & Chair, Cultures, Societies, and Global Studies; Professor & Interim Director, International Affairs; Professor, Political Science; Affiliated faculty member of Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies; Affiliated faculty member in the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs

Linda Blum

Professor of Sociology
Ekaterina Botchkovar

Ekaterina Botchkovar

Undergraduate Program Director; Associate Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice

Elizabeth Bucar

Professor of Religion; Dean's Leadership Fellow

Theo Davis

Professor of English
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Silvia Dominguez

Associate Professor of Sociology

Amy Farrell

Director and Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice; Co-Director of the Violence and Justice Research Lab
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Julia Flanders

Professor of the Practice in English; Director, Digital Scholarship Group
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Laura Frader

Professor, Emeritus

Laura Green

Associate Dean of Teaching, Learning, and Experiential Education; Professor of English and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
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Carla Kaplan

Davis Distinguished Professor of American Literature; Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

M. Whitney Kelting

Associate Professor of Religious Studies

Lori Lefkovitz

Ruderman Professor of Jewish Studies; Director of Jewish Studies Program; Professor of English

Alisa Lincoln

Associate Dean of Research; Director, Institute for Health Equity and Social Justice Research; Professor of Health Sciences and Sociology