K. Melchor Quick Hall

Lecturer
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 -
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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.