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Curriculum Vitae

Jayne Obiageli St. Clair Ifekwunigwe (October, 2014)

Mailing Address Professor Jayne O. Ifekwunigwe Department of African and African American Studies 243 Ernestine Friedl Building. 1316 Campus Dr. Box 90252 Duke University Durham, NC 27708 E-Mail Address [email protected] Education 1985 B.A. Anthropology, Brown University 1985 B.A. Biomedical Ethics, Brown University 1987 M.A. Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley 1993 Ph.D. Joint Medical Anthropology Program University of California, Berkeley/ San Francisco

Doctoral Dissertation: "Scattered Be-Longings: The Cultural Paradoxes of 'Race', Nation, and Generation in the English-African Diaspora" Co-Chairs: Professor Nancy Scheper-Hughes and Professor Carol B. Stack

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Academic Positions

January 2011-Present Visiting Associate Professor of African and African American Studies, Duke University August, 2014-Present Lecturer, Department of African, African American and Diaspora Studies, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (September) 2007- (September) 2010 Visiting Research Fellow in Africana Women’s Studies, Bennett College, Greensboro, NC

(September) 2005 - (June) 2006 Visiting Scholar, Department of Cultural Anthropology, Social Sciences, Duke University. 2002 - (September) 2005 Full-Time Reader in Anthropology, School of Social Sciences, Media and Cultural Studies, University of East London, U.K. 2001-2002 Full-Time Senior Lecturer, Anthropology Subject Area, School of Social Sciences, University of East London, U.K. 1999-2001 Full-Time Senior Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Sociology and Anthropology Subject Areas, University of East London, U.K. 1996-1999 Full-Time Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Sociology and Anthropology Subject Areas, University of East London, U.K.

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Additional Relevant Academic/Employment Experience

2000, September Guest Lecturer, Diaspora, Hybridity, and Globalisation: Understanding the Formation of Ethnic Identities in the Post-Modern World, Summer programme for the International Doctoral Programme (Ph.D.) on Black Culture and Ethnicity in Europe and Latin America, the ALFA Network, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands

1995-1996 Part-time Lecturer, “Culture, Subjectivity, and Power,” School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Glamorgan, Wales, U.K.

1995-1996 Part-Time Instructor, "Women on the Move: Positive Action Training Course for Women," Avon Community Education, Alexandra Park, Fishponds, Bristol, U.K.

1989,Fall Instructor, “Narratives of Selves,” Women's Studies Department, University of California, Berkeley. 1989,Spring Graduate Student Instructor, “Ethnic and Cultural Diversity in Health Status and Behavior,” Professor Denise Herd, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley 1988,Fall Graduate Student Instructor, “Ethnic Interaction,” Professor George De Vos, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley 1987-1988 Community Educator and Architect, "New Horizons," Life Planning Curriculum for "High Risk Youth Project," Planned Parenthood Association of San Mateo County, San Mateo, California. (Population: working class and middle class African American, Pacific Islander, Latino, Asian American, European American children (ages 4-11) or youth (ages 12-25) who live in designated "at risk" areas i.e. East Palo Alto or who are in a teen mothers' program, continuation school, substance abuse rehabilitation program, homeless youth hostel, juvenile detention facility, etc.)

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Research and Teaching Interests

The Global African Diaspora Transnational Migration, Gender and Human Rights Global ‘Mixed Race’ Global Black Youth Cultures and Resistances Cultural and Heritage Tourisms

Medical Anthropology, Migration, and Motherhood

Current Theoretical, Historical and Conceptual Research (2000-Present)

Roots, Routes and Detours: Stratifying the Global African Diaspora

Previous Theoretical, Historical and Conceptual Research (1999-2004) ‘Mixed Race’ Studies: A Reader Future Ethnographic Research

Medical Anthropology, Migration and Mothering Previous Summer Visual and Ethnographic Research (1996-2001)

‘Somewhere Over the Rainbow’: The Discrepant Management of Public Memories in (Post)Apartheid Cape Town, South Africa

Previous Ethnographic Research (1989-1999)

Scattered Belongings: Cultural Paradoxes of ‘Race’, Nation and Gender in Bristol, England and London, England

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Publications Books

Roots, Routes and Detours: Stratifying the Global African Diaspora (in production) Scattered Belongings: Cultural Paradoxes of 'Race', Nation and Gender (Routledge, London 1999)

Edited Collections

‘Mixed Race’ Studies: A Reader (Routledge, London 2004)

Other Editorship Output

Co-Editor, Feminist Review, number 56 (Summer, 1997), Debating Discourses, Practising Feminisms (other Co-Editors: Avtar Brah and Merl Storr).

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

Reframing Senegalese Youth and Clandestine Migration to a utopian Europe, special issue on “Senegal: Between Migrations to Europe and Returns,” ITPCM International Commentary 10 (35): 35-41. (April 2014)

“Voting with Their Feet”: Senegalese Youth, Clandestine Boat Migration and the Gendered Politics of Protest, special issue on Diaspora and Migration: Rethinking African Development, African and Black Diaspora 6 (2): 218-235. (July, 2013)

Recasting "Black Venus" in the 'new' African Diaspora, special issue on ‘Representing Migrant Women in Ireland and the E.U.’, Women’s Studies International Forum 27 (2004): 397-412.

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(An)Other English City: Multiethnicities, (Post)Modern Moments and Strategic Identifications, special issue on Multicultures and the Right to the City, Ethnicities, 2 (3): 321-348. (September 2002)

Re-Invoking the Griotte Tradition as a Feminist Textual Strategy, special issue on 'Discourse Ownership in Africa', Mots Pluriels, Issue 8:70-79. (Autumn 1998)

Borderland Feminisms: Towards the Transgression of Unitary Transnational Feminisms, special issue on Feminisms and Internationalisms, Gender and History, 10(3):553-557. (November 1998) Multiple Occupancies: Locating Home Base, special issue of New Formations, published conference proceedings of ‘Frontlines-Backyards’, 33 (1998): 90-108.

Book Chapters in Edited Collections

‘Black Folk Here and There’: Repositioning Other(ed) African diaspora(s) in/and “Europe”, T.Olaniyan and J.Sweet (eds.) The African Diaspora and the Disciplines, (Indiana University Press, Bloomington 2010), 313-338. Venus and Serena are "Doing it" for Themselves: Theorizing Sporting Celebrity, Marxism and Black Feminisms for "The Hip-Hop Generation" in B.Carrington and I.McDonald (eds.) Marxism, Cultural Studies and Sport (Routledge, New York/London 2009), 130-153. An Inhospitable Port in the Storm: Recent Clandestine West African Migrants and the Quest for Diasporic Recognition in N.Yuval-Davis, K.Kannibiran and U.Vieten (eds.) The Situated Politics of Belonging (Sage and International Sociological Association, London/Thousand Oaks, CA 2006), 84-99.

Recasting 'Black Venus' in the 'new' African Diaspora, K.Clarke and D.Thomas (eds.) Globalization and Race: Transformations in the Cultural Production of Blackness (Duke University, Durham 2006), 206-225.

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Introduction: Rethinking ‘Mixed Race’ Studies in J.O. Ifekwunigwe (ed.) ‘Mixed Race’ Studies, (Routledge, London 2004), 1-29. Scattered Belongings: Reconfiguring the ‘African’ in the English-African Diaspora in K.Koser (ed.) New African Diasporas, (Routledge, London 2003), 56-70. Re-Membering 'Race': On Gender, 'Mixed Race' and Family in the English-African Diaspora, in D.Parker and M.Song (eds.) Rethinking 'Mixed Race', (Pluto, London 2001), 42-64. Writing Home: Re-Configuring the English-African Diaspora in K. Owusu (ed.) Black British Culture and Society (Routledge, London 2000), 489-98. Old Whine, New Vassals: Are Diaspora and Hybridity Postmodern Inventions? In P. Cohen (ed.) New Ethnicities, Old Racisms (Zed, London 1999),180-204.

When the Mirror Speaks: the Poetics and Problematics of Psychic Performance for Métisse Women in Bristol in R. Barot , H. Bradley, and S. Fenton (eds.) Ethnicity, Gender and Social Change (MacMillan, London 1999), 206-222.

Diaspora's Daughters/Africa's Orphans?: On Authenticity , Lineage , and 'Mixed Race' Identity in H. Mirza (ed.) Black British Feminism (Routledge, London 1997), 127-153.

Work Reproduced in Readers

Cuando habla el espejo: La poética y la problemática de la construcción de identidad para las métisse de Bristol in M. Jabardo (ed.) Feminismos negros: Una Anthologia (Traficante de Sueños, Madrid 2012), 271-290.

Four Pillars of International Comparative Work on Mixed Race in S.Garner (ed.) Racisms (Sage, Los Angeles/London 2010), 84-89.

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Let Blackness and Whiteness Wash Through: Competing Discourses on Bi-Racialization and the Compulsion of Genealogical Erasures in J.O. Ifekwunigwe (ed.) ‘Mixed Race Studies’ (Routledge, London 2004), 183-194. Returning(s): Relocating the Critical Feminist Auto-Ethnographer in Jana Evans Braziel and Anita Mannur (eds.) Theorizing Diaspora, (Blackwell, Malden, MA 2003), 184-206.

Contributions to Encyclopedias ‘South African Coloureds’; ‘Miscegenation’; ‘The African Diaspora’; ‘The United Kingdom’: four entries, Encyclopedia of the World’s Minorities, (Routledge, New York 2005)

Book Reviews

Alexander, M. Jacqui (2005) Pedagogies of Crossing: Meditations on Feminism, Sexual Politics, Memory and the Sacred, Durham, NC/London: Duke University Press in Feminist Review, 2010: e5-e7. Olumide, Jill (2002) Raiding the Gene Pool: The Social Construction of Mixed Race, London: Pluto in Ethnic and Racial Studies 26 (3): 576-577.

Sudbury, Julia (1998) Other Kinds of Dreams: Black Women's Organisations and the Politics of Transformation, London: Routledge in Work, Employment and Society 14 (3): 613-615.

Back, Les (1996) New Ethnicities and Urban Youth Cultures, London: University College London Press in Sociology 31(1):174-175.

Alexander, Claire (1996) The Art of Being Black, Oxford: Oxford University Press in Sociology 31(1):177-178.

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Other Relevant Output In Accepting Nobel Prize, EU must address immigration issues, Op-Ed, New Jersey Star-Ledger, Guest Columnist

http://blog.nj.com/njv_guest_blog/2012/10/in_accepting_nobel_ prize_eu_mu.html (17 October, 2012) As Nobel Laureate, EU should address human rights concerns Op-Ed, Herald Sun, Guest Columnist (21 October, 2012)

Verbalising Art: Narratives of Resilience of Visual Artists in England and South Africa ,Educational Curricula (Arts and Social Sciences Curriculum Pack for GCSE and A levels in England and Jamaica) Tricks of the Trade, (Centre for New Ethnicities Research , UEL) completed in December, 1997 and piloted in England and Jamaica in 1998)

Parting Thoughts: Paul Gilroy's There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack, (Summer,1998),essay for BBC Windrush Education Website, Essential List of Black British Writing

http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/windrush

Scattered Belongings: Cultural Paradoxes of 'Race', Nation and Gender, Guest Editorial, Inter-Racial Voice Website,(November,1998)

http://www.webcom.com/intvoice/ Passing Through: Preliminary and Partial Meditations on the Fate of 'Coloured' Communities in the 'new' Cape Town,South Africa, Guest Editorial, Inter-Racial Voice Website,(March/April,1999)

http://www.webcom.com/intvoice/jayne2.html

Re-Membering the War: On Storytelling and the Anthropological Tradition, Calabash: A Newsletter for Writers of African and Asian Descent,(March,1999)

http://blog.nj.com/njv_guest_blog/2012/10/in_accepting_nobel_%20prize_eu_mu.html

http://blog.nj.com/njv_guest_blog/2012/10/in_accepting_nobel_%20prize_eu_mu.html

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Undergraduate Courses Taught at Duke

Introduction to African Studies: provides students with a critical and comprehensive but not exhaustive interdisciplinary introduction to key issues in contemporary African Studies: imperialism, capitalism and colonialism; development and democratization; nationalism and pan-Africanism; gender violence and empowerment; brain drain and shadow immigrations; the digital divide; global and indigenized youth cultures; economic growth and social inequalities; contemporary literary voices and multiple African stories.

Black Europe and the African Diaspora: explores diverse Black experiences in Europe. From undocumented Senegalese migrants in Spain, to trafficked Nigerian sex workers in Italy, to Black youth uprisings as forms of resistance and agency in Bristol, England and Paris France; examines the gendered paradoxes of ‘race’, nation, generation and citizenship in Europe as well as the complexities of the Global African Diaspora and its myriad constituents.

Film and the African Diaspora: Visualizing Black Britain: The primary objective of this course is to teach students how to critically "read" selected/sampled independent and mainstream narrative fiction and documentary films made by Black British film-makers about diverse Black experiences in Britain. By exploring different visual practices of representation and resistance, students will critique the narrative of "the Dark Stranger" and its gendered, racialized, sexualized and transnational forms.

Proposed Undergraduate Duke Courses

Border Crossings: Comparative Undocumented Immigration Politics and Policies: In May, 2013, I was awarded a Course Development Grant from the Program in Latino/a Studies to develop a comparative, interdisciplinary and transnational course, which explores similarities and differences in the political discourses and social policies of immigration regimes in the United States and Europe and compares the lived experiences of smuggled and trafficked undocumented migrant women, men and children and men.

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Mixed Race’ Matters: Using academic and popular debates on ‘mixed race’ as a springboard, such as Census classifications or ‘mixed race’ identity politics as a social movement, this course will introduce students to pioneering and controversial writings from both the social and the biological sciences as well as the humanities that explore the evolution of debates on ‘race’ and ‘mixed race’ from the nineteenth to the twenty first century.

Undergraduate Courses Taught at UNC-CH

Introduction to Africa: provides students with a critical and comprehensive but not exhaustive interdisciplinary introduction to key issues in contemporary African Studies: imperialism, capitalism and colonialism; development and democratization; nationalism and pan-Africanism; gender violence and empowerment; brain drain and shadow immigrations; the digital divide; global and indigenized youth cultures; economic growth and social inequalities; contemporary literary voices and multiple African stories.

Undergraduate Courses Taught in the U.K.

Global Youth Cultures and Resistances: explores the dialectical relationship between the structural position of young people in the African Diaspora (the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Brazil, and Jamaica), and on the continent (Senegal, Nigeria, and South Africa) and their engagement with expressive global youth cultures (in particular rap and reggae music and hair/style) as modes of resistance and empowerment. Global ‘Mixed Race’: Using the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Brazil, Jamaica, Australia, and South Africa as ethnographic examples, provides students with an historical and comparative understanding of the 'idea' of 'mixed race' and its intellectual relationship to contemporary debates on evolution, difference and social hierarchies.

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African and Black Feminist Politics and Practices: from comparative and global perspectives, addresses the social, cultural and historical constructions of gender as gender is shaped by the simultaneously lived experiences of ‘race’, ethnicity, religion, class, age, and sexuality as well as by the expansion of the political into the terrain of everyday life; examines the ways in which as gendered subjects, women and men produce, experience, negotiate, reproduce and resist the social relations and cultural meanings by which we live. Global Capitalisms, Global Tourisms and Global Migrations: problematizes, compares and interprets gendered, racialized, and sexualized dynamics of power in contemporary economic, and political processes of globalization, transnationalism, and movement (for 'leisure' and labor).

Cultural and Heritage Tourisms: evaluates the significance of 'culture' and 'heritage' as manufactured touristic commodities, explores the ways in which 'culture' and 'tradition' are both localized products of the past and globalized processes of the present, and examines the social and symbolic functions of peace and political tourism as nationalized forms of mythmaking. Urban Field Methods: A compulsory course, which provides students with an anthropological field work 'tool kit' (proxemics, participant observation and ethnographic interviewing) and introduces them to urban anthropological theories and reflexive and ethnosemantic analyses. Undergraduate Research Supervision: From year one, field work is an important component of the Anthropology undergraduate degree at the University of East London. In addition to running the first year Field Methods for Urban Anthropologists course and co-teaching the final year Field Methods course, as part of the Teaching team, I was the supervisor for countless final year field work-based dissertation projects.

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Graduate Research Supervision External Examiner Ph.D. Viva, Falmouth College of Arts,

Subject: 'Liminal Blankness: Mixing Race and Space in Monochrome's Psychic Surface.' (14 February, 2002)

Viva Chair Ph.D. in Sociology, University of East London

Subject: Organising in the Sex Industry: An Action Research Investigation

(22 April, 2005) External

External Supervisor (2003-2005, Director of Studies) Ph.D., Anthropology, University of East London Subject: Re-imagining (British)-Chineseness: The Politics and Poetics of Art and Migration in Diaspora Space (Completed in November 2009)

External Supervisor, Ph.D, Graduate School of Art,

Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education Subject: An Enquiry into the Appropriation and Transformation of African Tribal Imagery in Contemporary Western Sculpture (Completed in July 2004) External Supervisor, Ph.D., Department of Geography, University College London

Subject: Gender and 'Mixed Race' Identity in Canada (Completed in June 1998)

External Advisor D.Phil, Social and Political Thought, University of Sussex Subject: White Lives: Gender and the Social Construction of Race (Completed in June 2001)

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External Advisor Ph.D., Department of English and Cultural Studies, University of Melbourne, Australia Subject: Representing Anglo-Indians: A Genealogical Investigation (Completed in September 2000)

External Advisor Ph.D., Department of Psychology, University of East London

Subject: 'Mixed Race' Identity Formation in Britain (Completed in August 1998)

External Supervisor, MSc. Race and Ethnic Relations, Birkbeck College, University of London Subject: Cultural Representation, Autobiography and Experience as Historical Archive (Completed in November 2002)

External Advisor M.A. Anthropology and Cultural Process, Goldsmiths College, University of London Subject: 'Mixed Race' in Los Angeles: Exploring the Wider Margins of Multiracial Identity

(Completed in September 1998)

External Advisor MSc. Women's Studies, University of Bristol Subject: Heterosexism in the Workplace (Completed in September 1995 )

External Advisor MSc. Women's Studies, University of Bristol

Subject: Black Women's Mental Health in Bristol (Completed in September 1995)

External Advisor MSc. Race Relations, University of Bristol Subject; Higher Education as a Catalyst for Social Change in Asian Communities in Bristol

(Completed in June 1992)

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Research Grants Proposal Referee

Economic and Social Research Council Virtual Research College Member, Sociology, History, Anthropology and Resources, 2002-2005

Article Editor Sage Open Peer Reviewer Cultural Dynamics Ethnic and Racial Studies

Annals of the Association of American Geographers Feminist Review Feminist Theory Journal of Adolescence Latin American Journal of Anthropology Ethnos

Ethnicities Urban Studies

Anthropology and Humanism Book Proposal Reviewer Routledge-Anthropology; Sociology; Cultural Studies lists

McGraw Hill Palgrave-Macmillan

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Invited Keynote, Plenary, Conference, and Seminar Presentations ROOTS, ROUTES AND DETOURS: NEW POLITICAL AND GENDERED CARTOGRAPHIES OF THE GLOBAL AFRICAN DIASPORA

Invited Participant in Roundtable on Human Trafficking, Kenan Center for Human Rights, Duke University (October, 2014) Invited Workshop participant, DNA, Human Rights and Human Trafficking III, Duke Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy, Duke University (October, 2014)

Invited Discussant for Seminar paper by Elisa Joy White, UC Davis, “Black Europe and the African Diaspora”, as part of ASWAD Retreat, Duke University (February, 2013)

Invited Workshop participant, DNA, Human Rights and Human Trafficking II, Duke Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy, Duke University (September, 2013) Invited Speaker, paper, Recasting ‘Black Venus’ in the Global African Diaspora (Part II), Feminist Theory and Practice in the African Diaspora, part of Gendering and Queering the African Diaspora, a workshop series presented by the African Diaspora and Atlantic World Research Circle, University of Wisconsin, Madison (April, 2013) Invited Workshop participant, DNA and Human Trafficking, Duke Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy, Duke University (March 2013) Invited Research participant/contributor, The Voice and Face of Black Women Anthropologists, Dr. A. Lynn Bolles, University of Maryland, College Park (March, 2013)

Journey of No Return: Senegalese Youth, Clandestine Migration and the Limits of Choice, Human Rights and Immigration Panel, Sixth Conference for the Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora on ‘African Liberation and Black Power: The Challenges of Diasporic Encounters Across Time, Space and Imagination’, Pittsburgh, PA. (November, 2011)

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Invited Conference participant, Out of Africa (“By Any Means Necessary”): Recent Clandestine West African Migration and the Gendered Politics of Survival, Panel on Markets, Labor and Brokers, an Interdisciplinary conference on ‘Human Traffic: Past and Present’, Duke University (October, 2011) Invited Symposium participant, ‘Black Folk Here and There’: Repositioning Other(ed) African diasporas in/and “Europe,” International symposium on ‘African Diaspora and the Disciplines', hosted by the African Diaspora and the Atlantic World Research Circle, University of Wisconsin at Madison. (March 2006) Invited Roundtable participant, 'Globalization and Race' roundtable, involving editors of and contributors to the forthcoming Globalization and Race: Transformations in the Cultural Production of Blackness (Duke University Press), Yale University. (September 2004) Invited Plenary Speaker, Racisms, Sexisms and Contemporary Politics of Belonging Panel, 'Racisms, Sexisms and Contemporary Politics of Belonging', International Sociological Association interim Conference, Friends House, London, U.K. (August 2004)

An Inhospitable Port in the Storm: Recent Clandestine African Migrants and the Quest for Diasporic Recognition', conference paper, 'Imagining Diasporas: Space, Identity and Social Change', University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada. (May 2004) 'Recasting "Black Venus" in the African Diaspora of the Global Age', conference paper, Second Conference for the Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora on ‘Affirmations and Contestations: Interrogating the Connections Between Africa and the African Diaspora, Northwestern University. (October 2003)

Keynote Address, Roots and Routes: Rethinking Gendered African Diasporas in the Global Age, 'Migrant Women Transforming Ireland' conference, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. (March 2003)

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Invited Speaker, An Inhospitable Port in the Storm: Recent Clandestine African Migrants and the Quest for Diasporic Recognition, Seminar paper, Immigration and Gender Faculty Workshop, Rockefeller Center, Dartmouth College. (November 2002) Recasting 'Black Venus' in the African Diaspora of the Global Age, conference paper, 'Gendering the African Diaspora: Women, Culture and Historical Change,' Dartmouth College. (November 2002) Roots and Routes; Rethinking African Diaspora(s), Seminar paper, African Studies Seminar Series, Liverpool University, U.K. (April 2002) Roots and Routes; Rethinking African Diaspora(s), Seminar paper, Departments of African American Studies, African Studies, and History, University of California, Los Angeles. (April 2002)

Invited Symposium Panelist, International Symposium on Global Inequalities, Tufts University. (March 2002)

Roots and Routes: Rethinking African Diaspora(s), conference paper, African Studies Association annual meeting, Houston, Texas. (November 2001) Chair and Organizer film screening of ‘Hopes on the Horizon’ about the ‘(post)colonial moment’ in 6 African countries, and panel discussion with the director Onyekachi Wambu and the film’s composer Tunde Jegede, University of East London, Docklands Campus, U.K. (October 2001) Invited Symposium Panelist, International Symposium on Race and Ethnicity: A Global Enquiry, Tufts University. (March 2001) Invited Seminar Speaker, Roots and Routes; Rethinking African Diasporas, 'Works in Progress' seminar paper, African American Studies Department, Yale University. (January 2001)

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GLOBAL ‘MIXED RACE’ STUDIES

Invited Keynote Speaker, International conference on “Biographies of Belonging”, VU University, Amsterdam, the Netherlands (March, 2015)

Invited Plenary Speaker, Unpacking Scattered Belongings: The Poetics of Location and the Geopolitics of Knowledge Production, conference on 'Diasporic Dialogues: Race and Politics across the Black Atlantic', sponsored by the Center for African and African American Studies, University of Texas at Austin. (April 2005) 'The Slave Mistress: Black Feminist Politics of Agency and Victimisation', Guest Lecture as part of Series on Uncle Tom, Tragic Mulatto and Other Slave Archetypes organised by the African Remembrance Day Committee, Manchester Metropolitan University, U.K. (March 2005) Keynote Address, Unpacking Scattered Belongings: The Poetics and Politics of Location in Feminist Ethnographic Praxis, International and interdisciplinary conference on ‘Gendered Spaces,’ the University of Huelva, Spain. (May 2001) Unpacking Scattered Belongings: The Poetics and Politics of Location in Feminist Ethnographic Praxis, seminar paper, Centre for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies, Leeds University, U.K. (April 2001) Invited Speaker, (An)Other English City: Multiethnicities, (Post)Modern Moments and Strategic Identifications, lead paper, ESRC Cities Workshop, ‘Multicultures and the Rights to the City, Tate Modern, London, U.K. (April 2001) Invited Plenary Speaker No Fixed Address; Englishness as a Floating Signifier, British Council symposium on ‘New Englishes’, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece. (October 2000)

No Fixed Address: Reconfiguring the English-African Diaspora in the Age of Transnationalism and Globalisation, conference paper, Crossing Boundaries: The African Diaspora in the New Millennium, New York University/Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. (September 2000)

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Writing Home II: Reconfiguring the ‘African’ in the English-African Diaspora, conference paper, African Identity at the Crossroads Panel, Crossroads in Cultural Studies conference, University of Birmingham, U.K. (June 2000) Invited Speaker, Re:Place: On Gender, ‘Mixed Race’ and the Dialectics of English Indigeneity and African Diasporicity, Uprootings/Regroundings: Questions of Home and Migration Day School, Institute for Women’s Studies, University of Lancaster, U.K. (May 2000) Towards a Poetics of Nomadic Consciousness: Rethinking ‘Africa’ and the ‘African Diaspora’, symposium paper, New African Diasporas symposium, Department of Geography, University College London, U.K. ( May 2000)

Invited Seminar Speaker, Writing Home II: Reconfiguring the ‘English’ and the ‘African’ in the English-African Diaspora, Irish Centre for Migration Studies, National University of Ireland, Cork. (February 2000) Rupturing the Fault Lines: Transgressing Competing 'Black/White' Discourses on 'Mixed Race', conference paper as part of the Invited Session, Mixing it Up with Mixed Race: Problematizing and Historicizing the Mixed Race Discourse, American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings, Chicago. (November 1999) Kinscripts and Ancestors: 'Mixed Race', Lineage and Representation in Literary, Historical and Biographical Narratives(co-chaired session),and conference paper: Re-Membering 'Race': On Gender, 'Mixed Race' and Family in the English-African Diaspora and ,annual conference of Anglo-American historians on Race and Ethnicity, Institute of Historical Research, London, U.K. (June 1999) Borderland Feminisms II: Towards the Transgression of Unitary Transnational Feminisms, Multi-media conference paper, White Women?, Centre for Women's Studies, University of York, U.K. (April 1999)

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Facilitator and Instructor, Daughters of the Diaspora(s):The Meaning of Memories and the Making of Identities, multimedia and participatory workshop on the role of photography in the shaping of gender ,'racial' and generational identities, Kuumba Arts Project, St. Pauls, Bristol, U.K. (March 1999) Cracking the Coconut: Resisting Popular Folk Discourses on 'Race', 'Mixed Race' and Social Hierarchies, Conference paper, Race and Social Identity Panel, American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (December 1998) An(Other) English Journey: 'Race', Place and De/Territorialised Discourses of Gendered Identities, Seminar Presentation, Department of Anthropology and Sociology, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa. (August 1998)

Writing Home: Reconfiguring the (English)-African Diaspora, workshop paper, International Centre for Contemporary Cultural Research International Workshop on Transnationalism, Universities of Manchester and Keele, U.K. (May 1998) Invited Discussant/Presenter, Mapping 'Multiracial' Family Genealogies, discussion paper, "Racism in Mixed Race Families" symposium, The European Year Against Racism: Emerging Issues for the Millennium, Institute for Public Policy Research, London, U.K. (March 1998)

Beyond the Zebra Stripings of Our Imagination: The Limits of the Personal, the Political and the Categorical, workshop and seminar paper, Race Study Group, Black Women's Subcommittee, British Sociological Association, South Bank University, London, U.K. (February 1998)

'Runnings' on 'Race' or Why Phenotype Continues to Overtake Genotype as the Major Determinant of the Qualitative Nature of Intra/Inter-Group Relations, conference paper, Re-thinking 'Mixed Race’, Birkbeck College, University of London, London, U.K. (December 1997) Chair, Centre for New Ethnicities Research seminar on Afrocentricity and Diaspora, with John Picton, SOAS; University of East London, U.K. (December 1997)

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Old Whine, New Vassals?Part III: Or Are Diaspora(s) and Hybridities Postmodern Inventions? , paper delivered at Diasporic Futures, Global Trends, and 'Post'-Coloniality conference, Department of Cultural Studies, University of Birmingham, U.K. (March 1997)

Strand Coordinator and Facilitator, Multiple Occupancies: Locating Home Base, "Front Lines, Back Yards" conference , Centre for New Ethnicities Research , University of East London; Institute of Education, U.K. (December 1996)

Invited Seminar Speaker, 'South Pacific' and a 'Bit of the Other Overseas': Constructions of 'Race', Gender and Sexuality, American Studies, University of Essex, U.K. (November 1996) By Birth and by Blood: Bi-Racialised Bodies and the Poetics and Problematics of Psychic Performance in the English-African Diaspora , conference paper, "The Body Politic", University of South Africa, Johannesburg, South Africa. (September 1996) Re-naming and Re-Claiming: The Poetics and Politics of Métis(se) Identities in the Visual Arts, paper presented at symposium on "British" Identity and Art, Weston College , Weston-Super-Mare, U.K. (April 1996)

GLOBAL YOUTH CULTURES AND RESISTANCES

Invited Panelist/Speaker for Academic Showcase of Duke Faculty, “50 Years Forward: A Forum on Duke and the Global Future,” delivered a talk on “The Personal is Historical, The Collective is Global: Remembering Our Past, Forging our Future,” 2013 Black Student Alliance Invitational (March 2013)

Invited Faculty Speaker on “Nurturing Minds and Facilitating Self- Empowerment” for Black Parents Brunch as part of Black Parents Weekend, sponsored and hosted by the Mary Lou Williams Center for Black Culture (October 2012)

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Keynote Speaker and Organizer, Community Forum on “Race and Academic Achievement,” delivered a talk on “Closing the Curriculum Gap, Generating Cultural Capital,” Carolina Friends School, Chapel Hill, NC (October 2012) Invited Seminar participant, paper, ‘Race’/Riots and Youthful Resistance: The Vagaries of Whiteness in (Post)colonial Britain, Seminar theme is ‘Constructing and Contesting Whiteness: An Atlantic Perspective’, to mark the 20th anniversary of the landmark book Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class by David Roediger, The History Center, University of South Carolina. (March, 2012) Invited Panelist, “All About the Money, Honey”: Serena Williams, Transnational Corporate Patronage and the “Perplexities” of Ethical Charity, ‘Diasporic Ambiguity and Transnational Perplexity’ Panel, ‘Gendering Diaspora and Race-ing the Transnational’ symposium, hosted by the Program in Women’s Studies, Duke University. (November 2005) Venus and Serena are "Doing it" For Themselves: Theorizing Sporting Celebrity, Marxism and Black Feminism for the "Hip-Hop" Generation, conference paper, The Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora (ASWAD) Third Biennial Conference, 'Diasporic Encounters and Collaborations', Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (October 2005) Invited Speaker, Venus and Serena are "Doing it" for Themselves: Theorizing Sporting Celebrity, Marxism and Black Feminisms for "The Hip-Hop Generation", symposium and conference paper, 'Marxism, Cultural Studies and Sport', University of Texas at Austin. (April 2005) Workshop Facilitator/Lecturer, ‘Roots of Racisms’, Day long training session, Tolerance in Diversity (a charity which trains a diverse cohort of young people in East London to act as anti-racist peer educators in their communities), London, U.K. (August 2004) Workshop Facilitator, ‘Belonging in Britain’, Tolerance in Diversity Pan-London Annual Youth Conference, City College, London, U.K. (August 2003)

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Workshop Facilitator, ‘Global Youth Cultures and Empowering Musical Resistances’, Young People Change the World: International Summer School for Young Activists, St. Donats Castle, Wales, U.K. (June 2003)

Chair and Organiser, VITALISTICS: LIVE, a panel discussion involving hip hop pioneer HKB:FINN, composer/musician/producer Tunde Jegede and journalist/broadcaster Onyekachi Wambu and live music event by HKB:FiNN and his ensemble, University of East London, Docklands Campus, U.K. (May 2003) Workshop Facilitator/Lecturer, ‘Roots of Racisms’, Day long training session, Tolerance in Diversity (a charity which trains a diverse cohort of young people in East London to act as anti-racist peer educators in their communities), London, U.K. (March 2003)

Chair and Moderator, Hair Daze: Cultural Politics of Black Hair, Multimedia symposium at the Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, U.K. (October 1998) Chair, Centre for New Ethnicities Research Annual Lecture with Professor Patricia Hill-Collins, "The More Things Change, The More They Stay the Same" , University of East London, U.K. (May 1997)

CULTURAL AND HERITAGE TOURISMS IN CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA

Invited Speaker, Healing Place: Robben Island and the Local Politics of World Heritage Tourisms, Institute for Culture, Tourism and Development, London Metropolitan University, U.K. (September 2002) Healing Place: Robben Island and the Local Politics of World Heritage Tourisms, conference paper, ‘Politics of World Heritage’, international conference, London Metropolitan University, U.K. (September 2002) A Tale of Two Cities: The Making and Unmaking of (Post)Apartheid Cape Town, conference paper, international and interdisciplinary conference on ‘Turbulent Cities’, University of East London/University College London, U.K. (December 2001)

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Return of the Gaze: Post/Imperialism, Post/Apartheid, and Township/Tourist Encounters in Cape Town, seminar paper, Centre for Narrative Research, University of East London, U.K. (March 2001) Somewhere Over the Rainbow: Cultural Tourism and the Discrepant Management of Public Memories in (Post)Apartheid Cape Town, South Africa, conference paper, American Anthropological Association Annual meetings, San Francisco, CA. (November 2000) Viewing the Remains: Township Tours as Spectacles of Domesticity and Spectres of Apartheid in Cape Town, South Africa, conference paper, ‘Geographies of Home’ conference, University College London, U.K. (November 2000) Invited Speaker, Siting Tourism(s): Mapping Genealogies of Tourist Space in (Post)Apartheid Cape Town, South Africa, Department of Sociology, University of Essex, U.K. (May 2000) A Tale of Two Cities: Visual and Folk Narratives of Tourist Place in (Post)Apartheid Cape Town, South Africa, conference paper, ‘Pleasure and Danger in the City: Urban Oral History’, Annual conference of the Oral History society, Birmingham Midland Institute, U.K. (April 2000) Somewhere Over the Rainbow: Reflections on ‘Race’ and Nation in the ‘new’ Cape Town, South Africa, seminar presentation, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of East London, U.K. (December 1998) On Ethnographic Practises in (Post)Modern Times, Guest Lecture, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cape Town, South Africa. (August 1998)

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Radio, Television, Documentary Film, and Performance Art Appearances/Presentations

The Fate of the (Black) Intellectual in the Twenty First Century, ‘Nightwaves’, BBC Radio 3, (13 October, 1999)

Black British Cultures and Societies, An afternoon long discussion with Andrea Oliver and other invited guests, (artists, academics, media), BBC GLR,(29 October, 1999)

Black British Culture and Society/Scattered Belongings, an on air discussion involving myself and Kwesi Owusu editor of Black British Culture and Society, ‘Talking Art, Talking Africa, Spectrum Radio, (30 October, 1999)

The Art of Storytelling in Anthropology, ‘Talking Art, Talking Africa’, Spectrum Radio, (27 November, 1999)

Redefining the Author, on air discussion with Laurie Taylor about power and politics in ethnographic writing, ‘Thinking Allowed’, BBC Radio 4, (8 December, 1999)

Beyond Black and White, BBC Radio 4 documentary exploring Britain's 'new' 'Mixed Race' landscape, (5 March, 1999)

'Thinking Allowed', interview with Laurie Taylor on Scattered Belongings,BBC Radio 4, (16 December,1998)

Dialogues on the public/private cultural politics of 'mixed race' families , KUSP radio, Santa Cruz , California (Autumn,1994)

Participant medical anthropologist , part of a radio series on A Woman's Well Being Therapies, KPFA radio, Berkeley, California (April , 1994)

Beginner's Guide to Melanin, BBC2 documentary (June, 1997) Beginner's Guide to Tribalism , BBC2 documentary (July, 1997) Deep Blaq, Channel 4 film documentary, (May,1996) Dating the Enemy, ITV studio talk show, (May, 1997)

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Family Album show, Performance art piece (June 9-July 9) Luggage Store Gallery , San Francisco , California (16 June , 1994)

Relevant Academic/Research Activities

2012-Present Invited Member of the Advisory Board of Directors for ASWAD (Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora), U.S.A.

2005-2011 Elected Member of the Executive Board of Directors for ASWAD (Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora), U.S.A. 2008-2009 Member of the Program Committee for the Fifth Biennial Conference of the Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora (ASWAD) in Accra, Ghana (August, 2009); Conference Theme: ‘Africa, Diaspora and Pan-African Agendas’

2002-2005 Invited Member of the Sociology, History, Anthropology and Resources College, Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Virtual Research College, U.K.

Research Associate, Centre for Urban and Community Research, Goldsmiths College, University of London, U.K.

Academic Administrative Responsibilities

2003-2005 Readers and Professors Group, School of Social Sciences, University of East London 2002-2004 Convenor Curriculum Review Group, School of Social Sciences, University of East London 2002-2004 Course Tutor, Tourism and Travel BA (Hons.) Degree, School of Social Sciences, University of East London

2000-2005 Academic Liaison for African, African Caribbean, and South Asian Anthropology Students, University of East London

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1996-2000 Second Year Course Co-ordinator, Sociology Subject Area , Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of East London

Academic Committee Membership

2004-2005 Field Representative, School Research Committee, School of Social Sciences, Media and Cultural Studies, University of East London 2001-2004 Representative, School Research Committee, School of Social Sciences, University of East London 1997-2001 Representative, Research Committee, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of East London 1997-2001 Representative, Faculty of Social Sciences Board, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of East London

2001-2002 Equal Opportunities Co-ordinator, School of Social Sciences, University of East London 1998-2000 Member of the Academic Strategy Group, Corporate Plan 2000, University of East London

1997-2000 Member, Diasporic Studies Working Group, University of East London

University of East London Research Group Membership

Cities, Time and Space Group for the International Study of the Social Sciences Narrative Research Anthropology

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Membership Professional Societies/Associations/Groups

Royal Anthropological Institute American Anthropological Association Association of Black Anthropologists Association for Feminist Anthropology Society for Visual Anthropology African Studies Association ASWAD (Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora) Society of Authors Autograph-Association of Black Photographers Black Women Artists’ Study Group

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Referees

1) Professor William Darity Former Chair, African and African American Studies Department

Professor of Public Policy and African and African American Studies and Professor of Economics

Department of African and African American Studies 243 Ernestine Friedl Building. 1316 Campus Dr. Box 90252 Duke University Durham, NC 27708 Telephone: (919) 613 7336 E-mail: [email protected]

2) Professor Barbara Harrison Professor Emerita of Sociology Former Head of the School of Social Sciences University of East London 4-6 University Way London E16 2RD United Kingdom Telephone: +44 208 223 2771 E-Mail: [email protected]

3) Professor Michael Gomez

Professor of History President, International Scientific Committee for the Slave Route Project, UNESCO Department of History New York University 53 Washington Square South, 7th Floor New York, New York 10012—1098 Telephone: (212) 998 8624 E-Mail: [email protected]

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4) Professor Paul Spickard Professor of 20th-Century American Social and Cultural History Department of History University of California, Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9410 Telephone: (805) 893 2512 E-Mail: [email protected]

5) Professor Nira Yuval-Davis

Professor of Sociology Director, Centre on Migration, Refugees and Belonging Graduate Course Director in Gender, Sexualities and Ethnic Studies School of Social Sciences, Media and Cultural Studies University of East London 4-6 University Way London E16 2RD United Kingdom Telephone: +44 208 223 2632 E-Mail: [email protected]



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