Tricia Rose
Professor of Africana Studies:
Africana Studies
Phone: +1 401 863 3137
Tricia_Rose@brown.edu
Professor Rose is primarily interested African-American culture and the social and political significance of its creation, dissemination and evaluation. She is also interested in gender issues and the complex ways that sexuality and gender shape and reflect both the concerns of African-Americans and the circumstances they face in modern American life.
Biography
Tricia Rose specializes in 20th century African-American culture and politics, social thought, popular culture and gender issues. She is the author of Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America (1994) and Longing to Tell: Black Women Talk About Sexuality and Intimacy (2003). Black Noise won several awards including an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation. She has been awarded such prestigious fellowships ad the Princeton University's Afro-American Rockefeller Postdoctoral Fellowship and the American Association of University Women Fellowship.
Interests
My intellectual concerns and research interests have centered on African-American culture and cultural politics: expressive forms vis a vis the social, cultural, historical and political contexts within which black culture is made. The relationship between cultural history and social context becomes especially complicated in the second half of the 20th century when new audiences, communities, market forces and technologies emerge to produce enormous diversity in the ways African-American cultural forms and narratives are created and received. In order to understand these new forms and settings for culture-making, I have taken an interdisciplinary approach in my work, drawing on urban, cultural and economic history, ethnography, oral history, cultural and musical criticism, theories of commodification and aesthetics.
Degrees
Ph.D. American Civilization, Brown University
Awards
1999 Top 100 Books of the 20th Century, Black Issues in Higher Education
For BLACK NOISE
1998 Golden Dozens Teaching Award
New York University
1996-1997 Ford Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellowsip
1996-1997 American Association of University Women Fellowship
(Declined.)
Fall 1996 Goddard Fellowship, New York University
1995 American Book Award, Before Columbus Foundation,
For BLACK NOISE
1993-1994 Princeton University Afro-American Rockefeller Foundation
Postdoctoral Fellowship
1990-1991 Charles G. Bolin Fellowship, Williams College
July
1986-1990 Dorothy-Danforth Compton Fellowship
Sept-June
1986 Ford Foundation, Humanities Graduate Fellowship
Honorable Mention
National Science Foundation, Social Science Graduate Fellowship
Honorable Mention
Affiliations
Sexuality Consortium Member, National Sexuality Resource Center
Member, American Studies Association
Editorial Board Member, AFRICAN-AMERICAN REVIEW
Editorial Board Member, POPULAR MUSIC
Teaching
Colloquium in American Cultural Politics
20th Century Black Feminist Thought in Theory and Practice
Pro-Seminar in Black Culture and History
African-American Life in the City
Hip Hop Music and Culture
Black Music, Literature and Life in 20th Century America
Writing About Race in the Post Civl Rights Era
Introduction to Black Urban Studies
Race, Gender and Sexuality in U.S. History
African American History 1865-Present
The 20th Century American City
Popular Culture in Post WWII America
Framing Gender, Race and Class on TV
