Women of Color Feminism (online and face-to-face)

Using M. Jacqui Alexander and Chandra Mohanty’s essay on radical women of color intellectual and genealogies as a jumping off point; this course explores the social and political movements women of color have waged against white supremacy, racial capitalism, colonialism, eugenics, ableism, transmisgynoir, and indigenous genocide in the United States and its outer colonies. This course foregrounds Patricia Hill Collins’s groundbreaking articulation of Black feminist epistemologies as a means to frame how women of color produce knowledge inside and outside of the academy, often in ways that flout conventional western feminist epistemes.

Decolonial Feminism (Fall semester only)

This upper-level seminar focuses on the utility of gender in the modernity/coloniality/decoloniality triad articulated by decolonial studies, specifically decolonial philosophy. Drawing on readings such as Maria Lugones’s “The Coloniality of Gender”, Sylvia Wynter’s “Unsettling the Coloniality of Being”, to Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí’s The Invention of Women; this course explores how colonial operations of gender are part and parcel with European articulations of the Human. Moreover, this course foregrounds Afro-Latinx, Sudanese, Congolese, and Tigrian decolonial feminisms as contemporary examples of decolonial feminist theory and resistance.

Gender and Religion (forecoming, Spring 2027)

Gender in Judaism and Islam (in development)

Sexuality, Race, and Power (online)