Charlene A. Carruthers

Education:

B.A., History & International Studies, Illinois Wesleyan University; M.S.W., Urban Development and Public Policy, Washington University in St. Louis; Ph.D., Black Studies, Northwestern University 

Dissertation:

Black Placemaking: Histories and Black Feminist Literary Imaginations of U.S. Settler Colonialism in Indian Territory, the United States, and Liberia 

Thesis Advisor:

Nitasha Sharma, Professor of Asian American Studies, Northwestern University 

Research Topic:

Unsettled: A History and Black Feminist Theory Black Placemaking in Indian Territory and Liberia

Mentor:

Dylan Rodríguez, Professor of Black Study, University of California, Riverside

Current Position:

President’s Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Black Study, University of California, Riverside