Tiffany Willoughby-HerardAssistant Professor, African American Studies Faculty Affiliate, Women's Studies Faculty Affiliate, Queer Studies Minor |
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Research Interests |
South Africa, poor whites, race in foreign policy, diaspora, comparative racial politics, black political thought, third world feminisms, feminist pedagogy, decolonizing theory, comparative political theory, community and civic engagement | |
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Academic Distinctions | University of California President's Postdoctoral Fellow, UC San Diego, Department of Ethnic Studies, Prof. Denise Silva (Mentor) | |
| Publications | 'Waste of a White Skin': Carnegie and the Making of White Misery, In progress | |
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2009. “Comparative Political Thought, Interdisciplinarity, and the History of the Carnegie Poor White Study in South Africa, 1927-1932.” Conference Proceedings for the South African Historical Society. 1-20. |
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| 2008. “The Rape of an Obstinate Woman: Frantz Fanon’s Wretched of the Earth.” Shout Out: Women of Color Respond to Violence. Eds. Barbara K. Ige and Maria Ochoa. Seal Press, pp.264-280. | ||
| 2007. “South Africa’s Poor Whites and Whiteness Studies: Afrikaner Ethnicity, Scientific Racism, and White Misery,” New Political Science: A Journal of Politics and Culture. Vol. 29, number 3. December, pp. 479-500. | ||
| 2006. “On Outlaws and Upstarts: Identity, African Diaspora Studies, and Anthropology,” Kroeber Anthropological Society: Special Issue on Race and Anthropology, Race in Anthropology 95, pp. 40-78. | ||
| 2005. “Writing in Solidarity: The New Generation.” Race and Class: Special Issue on Cedric J. Robinson. Vol. 47, number 2. October. 88-99. | ||
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2005."Student Journalism: Writing and Perseverance Beyond the Culture Wars, the End of History, the New World Order and the Clash of Civilizations." Conference Proceedings of the University of Michigan Futuring Diversity Conference. BOOK REVIEWS Forthcoming. Book Review. Appalachian Aspirations: The Geography of Urbanization and Development in the Upper Tennessee River Valley, 1865-1900 (University of Tennessee Press 2007) by John Benhart. Urban Geography. Journal Number not Assigned Yet. Pages 1-3. 2007. Book Review. “Of Social Contracts, Citizens, Customers, and the Process of Administrative Reform in South Africa: Karen Miller’s Public Sector Reform: Governance in South Africa.” Progress in Development Studies 7, 2, pp. 173-176. 2006. Book Review. Mandela’s World: The International Dimension of South Africa’s Political Revolution by James Barber. International Journal of African Historical Studies 39, 1. 2006. Book Review. Africa Policy in the Clinton Years: Critical Choices for the Bush Administration by J. Stephen Morrison and Jennifer G. Cooke (Eds.) International Journal of African Historical Studies 39, 1. 2006. Book Review. U.S. Policy in Postcolonial Africa: Four Case Studies in Conflict Resolution by F. Ugboaja Ohaegbulam. International Journal of African Historical Studies 39, 1. |
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| Grants | $4,000, Institute for Community and Civic Engagement, Fall 2007-Spring 2009, FUNDED Political Philosophy and Civic Engagement: Teaching Democratic Practice, Multi-campus project conducting oral histories of surviving lesser-known Black Panther Party members, utilizing community based research methods and research collective pedagogy with students at a four year and two year institution. Focus is on evaluating the relationship between political philosophy and civic engagement and social movement participation. Developing pedagogical and informal education skills for students interested in community work and community college teaching. | |
| Mellon Foundation-Future of Minority Studies Project, Summer Institute Fellow, 23 July- 3 August 2007 FUNDED ” Intersecting Identities and Social Justice: Realist Explorations,” Cornell University, Convened by Satya Mohanty and Linda Martín Alcoff, Intensive theory seminar for faculty and advanced graduate students on post-positivist realism, intersectionality, disability studies, immigration, citizenship and eugenics, racialization and exclusion in the workforce, racialization and criminal justice system, and identity. | ||
| $4,000 California Campus Compact—Carnegie Faculty Fellowship, 2007-2009, FUNDED, DECLINED Political Philosophy and Civic Engagement: Teaching Democratic Practice | ||
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Professional Societies |
National Conference of Black Political Scientists American Studies Association African Studies Association American Political Science Association Future of Minority Studies Project South African Historical Society South African Sociological Association |
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| Other Experience |
Assistant Professor, Political Science San Francisco State University 2006—2009 |
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Assistant Professor, Africana Studies University of Michigan, Flint 2004—2005 |
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| Graduate Programs |
Political Science |
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| Research Center | U of Witwatersrand Institute for Social and Economic Rsch, WISER | |
| Link to this profile | http://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=5561 | |
| Last updated | 11/18/2009 | |