"Dr. Treva Lindsey is an Assistant Professor of Women's and Gender Studies (at the University of Missouri). She is also a faculty affiliate of the Black Studies Program and has a graduate teaching appointment in the Department of History. She received her Ph.D. in History and a Graduate Certificate in African and African American Studies from Duke University in 2010. Her research and teaching interests include black female expressive culture, African American women's history, critical race and gender theory, black feminism(s), hip hop studies, and sexual politics.
She is currently completing her first monograph, Re-Imagining Public Culture: New Negro Womanhood in the Nation's Capital. Honing in on the intellectual and cultural strivings of African American women communities in New Negro era Washington, the monograph uncovers an urban landscape in which African American women sought to configure themselves as authorial subjects. By entering into “public” cultures, many New Negro women challenged racial, gender, and sexual ideologies and norms that relegated African American women to subordinate political, social, and cultural statuses. Through exploring the contours of the lives of New Negro women in Washington, she unearths a new perspective on how African American women navigated the Jim Crow era. Furthermore, Re-Imagining Public Culture reveals the significance of Washington, D.C. and the African American women who inhabited this city to African American freedom and equality struggles of the early twentieth century.
At the core of her scholarship is historical and contemporary African American women's expressive culture. Dr. Lindsey researches, presents, and publishes on topics ranging from skin bleaching practices among African American women in the early twentieth century to explorations of hip hop soul as a unique space for African American women's storytelling. In her more recent research, Dr. Lindsey investigates digital feminism and how African American women use new and social media as dynamic expressive sites."
Taken from Dr. Treva Lindsey's profile via http://wgst.missouri.edu/people/lindsey.html
