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Terrion Williamson is an assistant professor of African American and African Studies with appointments in Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies and American Studies. Her research and teaching specializations include black feminist theory, twentieth and twenty-first century African American literature, black cultural studies, media studies, and racialized gender violence. Her first book, Scandalize My Name: Black Feminist Practice and the Making of Black Social Life, uses her experiences growing up in the small midwestern city of Peoria, Illinois as the staging ground for a study of how poor and working-class black women upend foregoing notions of black female representation and consequently circumvent the constraints of stereotype discourse in the making of alternative black communal formations and kinship networks. Her current book project, which builds upon work started in the last chapter of Scandalize My Name, is a victim-centered study of the more than 60 cases throughout the U.S. in which black women have been the sole or primary targets of serial killers since the 1970s.
PhD, University of Southern California
Award Date: Aug 1 2011
MA, University of Southern California
Award Date: Aug 1 2008
Juris Doctor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Award Date: May 31 2005
BA, University of Illinois at Chicago
Award Date: May 1 2002
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
Research output: Book/Report › Book
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Terrion L Williamson (Speaker)
Activity: Talk types › Invited presentation
Terrion L Williamson (Speaker)
Activity: Talk types › Invited presentation
9/18/20
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Expert Comment
7/1/20
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Expert Comment
Williamson, Terrion L (Recipient), 2012
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Williamson, Terrion L (Recipient), 2016
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Williamson, Terrion L (Recipient), 2009
Prize: Fellowship awarded competitively
Williamson, Terrion L (Recipient), 2013
Prize: Fellowship awarded competitively