Tiffany Willoughby-Herard Explained

Tiffany Willoughby-Herard
Nationality:American
Awards:2017 Mae C. King Distinguished Paper Award on Women, Gender and Black Politics

Tiffany Willoughby-Herard is an American academic and author who is currently an associate professor in the Department of African American Studies at the University of California, Irvine[1] and President of the National Conference of Black Political Scientists.[2] Her research focuses on black political thought, black radical movements, and queer and trans sexualities.

Willoughby-Herard authored the book Waste of a White Skin: The Carnegie Corporation and the Racial Logic of White Vulnerability (University of California Press 2015)[3] [4] and edited the volume Theories of Blackness: On Life and Death (Cognella 2011).[5] Waste of a White Skin was reviewed widely in the academic press, including reviews by Clarence Lusane in the Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics, Grace Davie in the African Studies Review, and Annika Teppo in the Journal of Southern African Studies. [6] [7] [8]

Willoughby-Herard has published articles in Journal of Contemporary Thought; Cultural Dynamics; African Identities; Social Justice; National Political Science Review; Politics, Groups, & Identities; South African Review of Sociology, New Political Science, Race in Anthropology, focusing on intersectional topics in universities in the US and South Africa, among others "Mammy No More/Mammy Forever",[9] "Poetic Labors and Challenging Political Science: An Epistolary Poem",[10] and further topics such as biomedical radicalization.[11]

Willoughby-Herard is guest editor of special issues including: "Black Feminism and Afro-Pessimism" (2018) co-edited with M. Shadee Malaklou in Theory and Event; "Challenging the Legacies of Racial Resentment: Black Health Activism, Educational Justice, and Legislative Leadership" (2017)[12] co-edited with Julia Jordan-Zachery in the National Political Science Review; "Twenty Years of South African Democracy, Volume 1" (2015) co-edited with Abebe Zegeye in African Identities; "Cedric J. Robinson: Radical Historiography, Black Ontology, and Freedom" (2013) co-edited with H.L.T. Quan in African Identities. (Routledge 2017).

Willoughby-Herard is the former editor of the National Political Science Review (2016–2019), current book review editor for Safundi: The Journal of South African and American Studies, member of the editorial advisory board for the journal of the Critical Ethnic Studies Association.

In 2016, Willoughby-Herard was a member of the Women of Color Advisory Board to the Committee on the Status of Women in the Profession for the American Political Science Association.[13]

Awards and memberships

References

  1. Web site: UC Irvine - Faculty Profile System. www.faculty.uci.edu. en. 2019-10-25.
  2. Web site: NCOBPS President-Elect NCOBPS. en-US. 2019-10-25.
  3. Book: Waste of a White Skin. January 2015 . 978-0-520-28087-8 . en. Willoughby-Herard . Tiffany . Univ of California Press .
  4. Web site: Calisphere: Bridget Cooks & Tiffany Willoughby-Herard. Calisphere. 14 March 2016 . en. 2019-11-01.
  5. Book: Willoughby-Herard, Tiffany. Theories of Blackness on Life and Death. 2011-03-16. Cognella, Incorporated. 978-1-935551-41-6. en.
  6. Lusane. Clarence. 2017. Waste of a White Skin: The Carnegie Corporation and the Racial Logic of White Vulnerability. Edited By Tiffany Willoughby-Herard . Oakland: University of California Press, 2015.. Journal of Race, Ethnicity and Politics. en. 2. 2. 364–366. 10.1017/rep.2017.9. 165034895 . 2056-6085.
  7. Davie. Grace. 2015. Tiffany Willoughby-Herard. Waste of a White Skin: The Carnegie Corporation and the Racial Logic of White Vulnerability. Oakland: University of California Press, 2015. xviii + 171 pp. Illustrations. Endnotes. Appendixes. Bibliography. $65.00. Cloth. -978-0-520-28086-1.. African Studies Review. en. 58. 2. 246–248. 10.1017/asr.2015.52. 143254447 . 0002-0206.
  8. Teppo. Annika. 197685257. 2017-05-04. Whiteness, Race and South Africa's Colonial Project. Journal of Southern African Studies. 43. 3. 644–646. 10.1080/03057070.2017.1309847. 0305-7070.
  9. Book: Willoughby-Herard, Tiffany. Mammy No More/Mammy Forever. 2014. The Truly Diverse Faculty: New Dialogues in American Higher Education. 157–200. Fryberg. Stephanie A.. The Future of Minority Studies. Palgrave Macmillan US. en. 10.1057/9781137456069_6. 978-1-137-45606-9. Martínez. Ernesto Javier. The Truly Diverse Faculty.
  10. Willoughby-Herard. Tiffany. 220411209. 2019-01-02. Poetic Labors and Challenging Political Science: An Epistolary Poem. Journal of Women, Politics & Policy. en. 40. 1. 228–235. 10.1080/1554477X.2019.1565465. 1554-477X.
  11. Willoughby-Herard. Tiffany. 2018-02-13. (Political) Anesthesia or (Political) Memory: The Combahee River Collective and the Death of Black Women in Custody. Theory & Event. en. 21. 1. 259–281. 10.1353/tae.2018.0010 . 149070993 . 1092-311X.
  12. Book: Willoughby-Herard, Tiffany. Challenging the Legacies of Racial Resentment: Black Health Activism, Educational Justice, and Legislative Leadership. 2017-07-05. Routledge. 978-1-351-52956-3. en.
  13. Web site: Women of Color Advisory Board Committee on the Status of Women in the Profession. 2020-06-10. web.apsanet.org. 22 February 2016 .
  14. Web site: UCHRI Fall Awards. 2020-06-10. uchri.org. 21 February 2018 .
  15. Web site: Awards. ASBWP. en. 2019-10-25.

This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Tiffany Willoughby-Herard".

Except where otherwise indicated, Everything.Explained.Today is © Copyright 2009-2024, A B Cryer, All Rights Reserved. Cookie policy.