Maylei Blackwell : Assistant Professor , Chicano Studies |
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| Professional Experience Maylei Blackwell is an activist-scholar who completed her Ph.D. in the History of Consciousness Department at UC Santa Cruz with a parenthetical notation in Women's Studies. Her dissertation entitled, “Geographies of Difference: Mapping Multiple Feminist Insurgencies and Transnational Public Cultures in the Americas,” examines how questions of race and sexuality shape the challenges and possibilities of transnational feminist organizing in the Americas. Born in Long Beach, California, Dr. Blackwell has been active in women of color feminist organizing for over a decade and recently co-edited Time to Rise: US Women of Color – Issues and Strategies, a report to the UN World Conference Against Racism issued by the Women of Color Resource Center (available at www.coloredgirls.org.). She is currently a board member of the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission. Dr. Blackwell is completing a book on early Chicana feminism -- a journey she began in 1991 when she began conducting oral history interviews with Anna Nieto Gomez and members of the Hijas de Cuauhtémoc. She continues to research transnational women's organizing and she works with the Continental Indigenous Women's Network. Her current research historicizes the formation of a women of color political subjectivity through social movements genealogies and an oral history project with the Third World Women's Alliance. Summary of Research Interests Globalization and Transnational Social Movements, Chicana Feminism. US Women of Color Feminist Theory. Latin American Feminisms and Women's Social Movements. Oral History and Ethnography. Sexuality and Queer Studies. Cultural Studies of Race and Ethnicity. Latin American Cultural Studies and Popular Culture. Visual Culture; Media Activism; Film and Video; Third Cinema Education [Ph.D., History of Consciousness Department. (Parenthetical degree notation, Women's Studies). University of California, Santa Cruz, 2000.] [M.A., History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1996.] [B.A., History and Interdisciplinary Studies of Race and Gender. Minor in Spanish, California State University, Long Beach, 1993.] [Dissertation: Geographies of Difference: Mapping Multiple Feminist Insurgencies and Transnational Public Cultures in the Americas] Awards [University of California President's Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2000-2002. University of California, Berkeley. Department of Ethnic Studies. Mentor: Norma Alarcón.] [Dissertation Fellowship, 1999-2000. Women's Studies Dissertation Scholar, University of California, Santa Barbara.] [Dissertation Grant, 1998-2000. University of California Institute for Mexico and the U.S., UC MEXUS.] [Research Fellowship, Summer 1998. Hemisphere Dialogue, University of California, Santa Cruz. Ford Foundation's, "Revitalizing Area Studies" Program Initiative.] |
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