Dr. Treva Lindsey is an Associate Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at The Ohio State University. Her research and teaching interests include African American women’s history, black popular and expressive culture, black feminism(s), hip hop studies, critical race and gender theory, and sexual politics.  Her first book is entitled, Colored No More: Reinventing Black Womanhood in Washington D.C. (Spring 2017).

She has published in The Journal of Pan-African Studies, Souls, African and Black Diaspora, the Journal of African American Studies, African American Review, The Journal of African American History, Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism, Urban Education, The Black Scholar, Feminist Studies, Signs, and the edited collection, Escape from New York: The New Negro Renaissance Beyond Harlem. She is the inaugural Equity for Women and Girls of Color Fellow at Harvard University (2016-2017). During this fellowship, she will be working on a book project tentatively titled, Hear Our Screams: Black Women, State Violence, and Resistance. She is also the recipient of several awards and fellowships from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Emory University, the National Women’s Studies Association, the Coca Cola Critical Difference for Women Grant, the Center for Arts and Humanities at the University of Missouri and the College of Arts and Sciences at The Ohio State University. Dr. Lindsey was the inaugural recipient of the University of Missouri Faculty Achievement in Diversity Award.

She is the co-editor of a forthcoming collection on the future of Black Popular Culture Studies (NYU Press). She is a contributor to traditional and digital forums such as Al Jazeera, BET, Complex Magazine, Cosmopolitan, HuffPost Live, The Left of Black Web Series, and The Marc Steiner Show.