Good morning, academic friends. May your students have read the text, completed the assignment, and be excited to discuss today in class! Ten weeks (or so) to Thanksgiving….

So much great scholarship coming out right now! My amazing colleague Dr. Goosby and her colleagues recently published a paper in JHSB focused on fibroids among Black women in the academy. UT PRC UT Austin Sociology Check it out here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00…

Spelman College is proud to maintain its position as the No. 1 HBCU for the 18th year in a row on the @USNews Best Colleges Report! We're also ranked No. 1 in Social Mobility. View all of our 2024-2025 rankings: spelman.edu/news/2024/09/s…

Checking in to ask about course scheduling for folks who teach 3+ classes in one sem/day. How do you manage pacing? Do you do all back to back? 2, break for lunch and then the others? And how early do you start/late do you go? Pros and cons to various configurations.

My book is coming! I just got page proofs today and it's just barely starting to feel real. I apologize in advance because I'm going to talk about this a lot between now and March! ucpress.edu/books/who-pays…

If you snag a copy of today’s Detroit Free Press you can read my recently published op-ed in print! freep.com/story/opinion/…

Meet Jericho Brown (Jericho Brown), a poet and 2024 #MacFellow combining formal innovation and self-examination to expand on themes of spirituality, family, and identity. Learn more about Jericho ⬇️ macfound.org/fellows/class-…

Congratulations to alumna Dr. Ruha Benjamin, C’2001 (Ruha Benjamin) on being named a 2024 MacArthur Foundation Genius Fellow! Your groundbreaking work in science, technology and social justice continues to inspire us all. #SpelmanExcellence

The landing page for the Center for the Study of Black Families and Children is now available. Worked so hard to get this off the ground. And I'm thankful to the team going on this journey with me. I'm in my feelings right now. 😭 artsci.utk.edu/research-and-c…

What does career "success" really mean for college students? In my first solo-authored PhD article in Social Problems, I explore how students' racial and class backgrounds shape the moral tensions they face in their career decision-making ➡️ tinyurl.com/socpro056

I love this book

This is fine and also college rankings are racialized and anti-black processes that ignore historical and contemporary suppression and neglect of hbcus!

Hair by Helena.

It’s my TEDx Anniversary! Two years ago today I delivered my first #TEDx in my hometown of Detroit! This talk highlights my work on trauma narratives and narratives as currency. Full talk: Is My Pain Your Gain? | Aya Waller-Bey | TEDxDetroit youtu.be/g8cNikk32uM?si… via YouTube

🚀New paper alert. One chapter from my dissertation is out @Gend_Soc! Check out how Americans classify the gender of ambiguous names by using a gender-binary frame and racialized views. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/08…

“Passing it Down”

Is anyone still here? I know that basically I'm not either but if you are: I'm teaching research methods and I'm wondering if people have recommendations on reflexivity statements/positionality statements written by non-POC?