Faculty
Aisha Durham
Professor
Affiliated Department(s)
Affiliated Professor, Departments of Humanities & Cultural Studies and Women's & Gender
Studies
CONTACT INFORMATION
Email
Office: CIS 3050
BIOGRAPHY
Aisha Durham is a Professor of Communication and a Fulbright-Hays Fellow at the University of South 51在线 where she explores the relationship between media representations and everyday life using embodied, experiential, and evocative writing and interpretive approaches featured in the field-making anthology Home Girls Make Some Noise! as a coeditor, The Crunk Feminist Collection as a former blogger, and Home with Hip Hop Feminism: Performances in Communication and Culture as an award-winning author from the National Communication Association (NCA). Durham is the inaugural NCA Marsha Houston Award recipient for outstanding research in African American feminist studies, and she is a past recipient of the ISAN Ellis-Bochner Award in Autoethnography and Personal Narrative Research. In addition to her editorial board memberships and guest editorships for special issues highlighting transnational feminism and transdisciplinary cultural studies, Durham has served as an advisory board member for the Smithsonian Anthology of Hip-Hop and Rap and the National Women鈥檚 Studies Association (NWSA). To democratize knowledge Durham contributes to educational podcasts, and she writes public scholarship, delivers international talks, and provides Black feminist cultural analyses for news and entertainment outlets, such as The Times, Insider, Ms., NPR, Washington Post, and CNN.
RESEARCH AREAS
Media and cultural studies, Black feminist thought, Autoethnography, Qualitative methodology