Natalie Shibley

 Natalie  Shibley

Ph.D. in Africana Studies and History, 2018

PRSS Postdoctoral Fellow, 2018-2019 & 2019-2020
Currently: Visiting Assistant Professor, Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program, Northeastern University

Natalie Shibley is the Postdoctoral Fellow in the Program on Race, Science, and Society, based in the Center for Africana Studies. She is working on a manuscript about U.S. military policy regarding sexually transmitted diseases and homosexuality from the 1940s to 1990s. A paper based on this project won the African American Intellectual History Society's DuBois-Wells Graduate Student Paper Prize in 2018. Natalie earned a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania, where she was the first recipient of a joint doctoral degree in Africana Studies and History. She previously earned an MA from Penn and a BA from Columbia University.