As part of AAAS Activating Wellness Week, AIIS is thrilled to co-sponsor Encountering New Bends in Rivers: A Talk with Dr. Tiffany L. King. Please join us on October 19, 2023, from 4:00-5:30PM in North Kedzie Hall Rm. 219.
Tiffany King is the Barbara and John Glynn Research Associate Professor of Democracy and Equity at te University of Virginia. She is faculty in the Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. King is the author of The Black Shoals: Offshore Formations of Black and Native Studies which won the Lora Romero First Book prize and is a co-editor of the collection Otherwise Worlds: Against Settler Colonialism and Anti Blackness. King is also a co-director at the Black and Indigenous Feminist Futures Institute, and project funded by the Mellon Foundation. King’s research and programmatic work focuses on strengthening existing Black and Native relations and creating new possibilities for collaboration. She is currently working on a book project that attunes its senses to Black and Indigenous feminist and queer intimacies.
