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Keisha-Khan Perry

Assistant Professor of Africana Studies

**On leave for academic year 2007-2008.

Keisha-Khan Y. Perry, (Ph.D., UT-Austin, Anthropology, 2005) specializes in black women’s activism, African diaspora studies, critical race and feminist theories, urban geography and politics, and race relations in Latin America and the Caribbean. She has done research in Mexico, Jamaica, Belize, Brazil, Argentina, and the United States. Her most recent work is an ethnographic study of black women’s activism in Brazilian cities, specifically an examination of black women’s participation and leadership in neighborhood associations, and the re-interpretations of racial and gender identities in urban spaces.

Selected Honors and Awards:

  • Africana Research Center Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Penn State University, 2007-2008
  • Andrew W. Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Anthropology, Smith College, 2005-2006
  • Mendenhall Dissertation Fellowship, Smith College, 2004-2005
  • Carter G. Woodson Fellowship, University of Virginia (declined), 2004
  • J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship (Brazil), 2003
  • National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Grant, 2002-2003
  • National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, 2000-2002
  • Debra J. Herring Endowed Memorial Fellowship, Institute of Latin American Studies, University of Texas at Austin, 2000-2001
  • Woman of Distinction Alumna Award, Georgetown University Women's Center 10th Anniversary Celebration, 2000

Selected Publications:

  • Review of Patricia Hill Collins, Black Sexual Politics: African Americans, Gender, and the New Racism in Cultural Analysis, Volume 5, 2006.
  • “Por uma pedagogia feminista negra no Brasil: O aprendizado das mulheres negras em movimentos comunitários [Towards a Black Feminist Pedagogy in Brazil: Black Women’s Knowledge in Community Movements]” in Maria Lúcia Rodrigues Muller, Lea Pinheiro Paixão, Editors. Educação, diferenças e desigualdades, 1st Edition. Cuiabá, Brazil: EdUFMT, 2006. (In Portuguese)
  • “Social Memory and Black Resistance: Black Women and Neighborhood Struggles in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil” in The Latin Americanist, Volume 49, Number 1, 2005.
  • “The Roots of Black Resistance: Race, Gender and the Struggle for Urban Land Rights in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil” in Social Identities, Volume 10, Number 6, 2004.

Courses Taught

  • Race, Gender and Urban Politics
  • Black Women's Political Autobiography
  • Theorizing the Black Diaspora