SaraEllen Strongman
Professional Title
Assistant Professor, Afroamerican and African Studies
Department(s)
Afroamerican & African Studies
College of Literature, Science, and the Arts (LSA)
About
SaraEllen Strongman is an interdisciplinary scholar working at the intersection of Black Studies and Gender and Sexuality Studies. She researches and writes about Black feminisms, Black women's political and cultural history, and African American literature. Her manuscript in progress, The Sisterhood: Black Women, Black Feminism, and the Women's Liberation Movement, examines the moment when black women began calling themselves "Black feminists" during the 1970s and 1980s and how they pushed a predominantly white feminist movement to respond to their concerns and broaden their platform while simultanoeusly building their own autonomous institutions and the burgeoning field we now know as Black feminist thought.
Research Interests
activism
art
humanities
LGBTQ
race
sexuality