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The Department of Africana Studies invites you to our 12th Annual Graduate Student Colloquium, "Gendered Spatiotemporalities: Black Political Assertions of Self”.

For reasons of space, we encourage community members not affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania to join us via Zoom.

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Sherie M. Randolph: 

Dr. Sherie M. Randolph is an associate professor of history at the Georgia Institute of Technology and the founder of the Black Feminist Think Tank. Randolph formerly served as an associate professor of history and African American Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and is the author of the award-winning book Florynce “Flo" Kennedy: The Life of a Black Feminist Radical (University of North Carolina Press).

The former Associate Director of the Women’s Research & Resource Center at Spelman College has received several grants and fellowships for her work, most recently being awarded fellowships from the University of Connecticut’s Humanities Institute and Brown University’s Howard Foundation.

Dr. Randolph is currently completing two manuscripts Bad Black Mothers: A History of Transgression and A Black Women's History of Abortion and an edited collection tentatively titled More Words: More Fire: An Anthology of Black Feminist Thought, 1991-2021.

Brendane Tynes:

Dr. Brendane A. Tynes is the Sawyer-Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow for Black Liberation Studies at Rutgers University-New Brunswick with a PhD in Anthropology from Columbia University. They have a Bachelor of Arts with Distinction in Cultural Anthropology and a minor in Education from Duke University. Tynes’ scholarship centers the experiences of Black women, girls, and queer and trans people at the intersection of Black feminist anthropology, Black feminist critical theory, gendered violence, abolition, Black political movements, memory, and affect studies. Their dissertation research centered the affective responses of Black women and girls to multiple forms of violence within the Movement for Black Lives and Baltimore’s me too movement. Broadly, she is interested in the ways that Black people—particularly those who have intersecting experiences of oppression—care for themselves and each other while living through world-annihilating violence. She is a 2018 Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellow, a 2019 CAETR Foundation grantee, and a 2020 recipient of the Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. She has published essays in Feminist Media Studies, SAPIENS, and in the edited volume Researching Gender-Based Violence: Embodied and Intersectional Approaches (NYU Press, 2022). Tynes was the co-host of Zora’s Daughters Podcast, a Black feminist anthropological intervention on popular culture and is now the host of black. loved. free., a spiritual-political podcast that examines Black feminist political theory and Black and Indigenous spirituality. 

Shaka McGlotten:

Dr. Shaka McGlotten is Professor of Media Studies and Anthropology at Purchase College-SUNY, where they also serve as Chair of the Gender Studies program and the Co-Chair of Media Studies. From 2017-2024, they also served as Chair of Global Black Studies. An anthropologist and artist, McGlotten’s interdisciplinary research explores the intersections of black study, queer theory, digital media, and contemporary art. Their work investigates emerging networked intimacies, messy computational entanglements, and their impacts on queer of color lifeworlds.

They are the author of Dragging: Or, In the Drag of a Queer Life (Routledge, 2021) and Virtual Intimacies: Media, Affect, and Queer Sociality  (SUNY Press, 2013). They are also the co-editor of two edited collections, Black Genders and Sexualities (with Dana-ain Davis) and Zombies and Sexuality (with Steve Jones). Data & Society, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Akademie Schloss Solitude, and The Andy Warhol Foundation have supported their work.