Faye V. Harrison

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Faye V. Harrison
Basic facts
Organization:	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Department of African American Studies
Role:	Professor of African American studies and anthropology, Faculty Affiliate with the Program on Women & Gender in Global Perspectives, the Center for African Studies, and the Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies
Expertise:	African diaspora and transnational connections, intellectual history of African American studies, politics and public policy, social and behavioral studies, women and gender
Education:	•Ph.D., Anthropology, Stanford University, 1982 •M.A., Anthropology, Stanford University, 1977 •B.A., Anthropology, Brown University, 1974
Website:	Official website

Faye V. Harrison is an American legal scholar and professor. As of June 2022, she was a professor of African American studies and anthropology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, as well as the Faculty Affiliate with the Program on Women & Gender in Global Perspectives, the Center for African Studies, and the Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies. According to her faculty page on the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign's website, Harrison's areas of interest include African diaspora and transnational connections, intellectual history of African American studies, politics and public policy, social and behavioral studies, and women and gender.

Career

Below is a summary of Faye V. Harrison's education and career:

Academic degrees:

• Ph.D., Anthropology, Stanford University (1982)
• M.A., Anthropology, Stanford University (1977)
• B.A., Anthropology, Brown University (1974)

Professional positions and honors:

• Bronislaw Malinowski Award from the Society for Applied Anthropology (2022)
• Presidential Award from the American Anthropological Association (2007, 2018)
• Distinguished Service Award from the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (2018)
• William R. Jones Most Valuable Mentor Award from the Florida Education Fund (2013)
• Legacy Scholar Award from the Association of Black Anthropologists (2010)
• Zora Neale Hurston Award for Mentoring, Service & Scholarship (2007)
• Society for the Anthropology of North America Prize for Distinguished Achievement in the Critical Study of North America (2004)
• President of the Association of Black Anthropologists (1989-1991)
• Executive board member of the American Anthropological Association (1990-1991, 1999-2001)
• Chair of the Commission on the Anthropology of Women (1993-2009)
• Co-chair of World Anthropological Union's steering committee

Academic scholarship

The following table contains a selection of books and works by Professor Harrison about critical race theory and related issues. Any links in the table below feature Ballotpedia summaries of that scholarly work. All of her publications can be found here.

Scholarly work
Title	Source
"Refusing the God Trick: Engaging Black Women’s Knowledge"	Cultural Anthropology (2022)
"Audrey Smedley (1930-2020)"	American Anthropologist (2021)
"Valorizing Ancestors and Elders: Remembering Ira E. Harrison"	Transforming Anthropology (2021)
"Making the Ambiguities, Absent Presences, and Contradictions of Racialisation Analytically Legible: Reflections on a Critical Intellectual Imperative"	Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale (2019)
"Unraveling Race for the Twenty-First Century"	Exotic No More: Anthropology for the Contemporary World (2019)
"Finding a Path toward a Positive Turn: Facing Trump, the Alt-Right, & the Corporate Oligarchy in Theory & Practice"	Innovación para el desarrollo sostenible (Innovation for Sustainable Development) (2018)
"From Standing Rock to Flint and Beyond: Resisting Neoliberal Assaults on Indigenous, Maroon, and Other Sites of Racially Subjected Community Sustainability in the Americas"	Abya-Yala: Revista sobre Acesso à Justiҫa e Direitos nas Américas (2018)
"International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Union"	The International Encyclopedia of Anthropology (2018)
"Engaging Theory in the New Millennium"	Companion to Contemporary Anthropology (2017)
"Theorizing in Ex-Centric Sites"	Anthropological Theory (2016)

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