Lenora Renee Knowles

Education:

A.B., Africana Studies, Brown University; M.Div., Interdisciplinary Study, Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York; M.A., Women's Studies, University of Maryland, College Park; Ph.D., Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, University of Maryland, College Park

Dissertation:

"Women in the Struggle": Women of Color Coalitional Relationalities in the Cold War Era

Thesis Advisor:

Michelle V. Rowley, Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, University of Maryland, College Park

Research Topic:

The Organizing Theory and Praxis of U.S. Third World Women & Welfare Rights Activists

Mentor:

Leisy J. Abrego, Professor of Chicana/o and Central American Studies, University of California, Los Angeles and Grace Hong, Professor of Gender Studies, University of California, Los Angeles

Current Position:

President’s Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Chicana/o and Central American Studies, University of California, Los Angeles

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