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Department of African American and Diaspora Studies

Tiffany Ruby Patterson

Chair of African American and Diaspora Studies
Associate Professor of African American and Diaspora Studies

Professor Patterson is Associate Professor of African American and Diaspora Studies, History, and American Studies.  She is currently co-editor of Palimpsest: A Journal on Women and Gender and the Black International. She is a regular visiting faculty member in the Decoloniality Summer School in South Africa and Spain.

Specializations

  • Africans in the Atlantic World in the 19th & 20th centuries
  • Intersections of race, gender, sexuality, and class
  • Intellectuals & political movements in empire
  • History in film, novels, and art
  • Comparative slave systems

Representative Publications

  • Zora Neale Hurston and a History of Southern Life (Temple University Press, 2005)
  • “Unfinished Migrations: Reflections on the African Diaspora and the Making of the Modern World,” African Studies Review (April, 2000) (co-authored with Robin D.G. Kelley)