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From the Margin to the Center: An Examination of Black Women’s Communicative Resistance

Hosted by Communication Studies

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12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Zoom Meeting Room: https://unl.zoom.us/j/97213550368
Contact:
Dawn 0. Braithwaite , dbraithwaite@unl.edu
Dr. Sharde M. Davis is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication and Faculty Affiliate of various research institutes at the University of Connecticut. Her research examines the way Black women leverage communication in the sistah circle to invoke collective identity, erect and fortify the boundaries around their homeplace, and backfill the necessary resources to return to white/male dominant spaces in American society. These ideas have been published in over 40 peer-refereed articles and invited book chapters, and are best represented in her theory, The Strong Black Woman Collective. Her research was formally recognized with the 2018 American Postdoctoral Fellowship from the American Association of University Women and the 2019 Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship. In addition to her program of research, Dr. Davis created the viral Twitter Hashtag #Blackinthelvory, which extended a timely opportunity for Blackademic TRUTHtellers to share personal instances (and engage in necessary conversations) about anti-Black racism in academia. She is also the inaugural recipient of the 2021-2022 Faculty of Color Working Group Fellowship funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to edit a new book for #Blackinthelvory that is set to publish in 2023 by the University of North Carolina Press.

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