Ph.D., Yale University
Associate Professor of Sociology, Chair, African and African American Studies
Acting Chair, African and African American Studies Program
“Constructing Virtue: Gender and the Popular Visualization of Women Prisoners, 1890s-1940," Special Issue of Gender & History: Visual Gender, Patricia Hayes, Special Editor (invited submission, under review).
“Your Blues Aren’t Like Mine: Women and the Prison-House in Du Bois’ The Souls of Black Folk", to be included in a book edited by Nellie Y. McKay & Craig H. Werner in what will be the launch volume for a new University of Wisconsin Press forthcoming series on African American culture, history, and society.
"Missing the Beat, Unraveling the Threads: Class and Gender in Afro-American Social Issues." The Black Scholar, Special Issue: Afro-American Studies in the Twenty-first Century, The Wisconsin Conference on Afro American Studies, v22 n3 Summer 1992 : 36-44.
"Multiple Jeopardy, Multiple Consciousness: The Context of Black Feminist Ideology." Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. Autumn 1988: 88-111. Reprinted in more than ten anthologies.
African American women's political and social activism in the twentieth century
Race, class, and gender dynamics
Sociology of law
Assisted reproduction
Sexuality
Black Womanhood in Culture and Society
Dangerous Intersections: Race, Class and Gender
