About

Dr. Nneka D. Dennie is a Black feminist scholar with specializations in nineteenth- and twentieth-century African American history. Her research examines Black intellectual history, Black feminist thought, transnational feminism, and Black radicalism. Dr. Dennie is an Assistant Professor of History, core faculty in the Africana Studies Program, and affiliate faculty in the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at Washington and Lee University. She is also a 2022-2023 recipient of the Mellon Just Transformations Fellowship in the Center for Black Digital Research at Pennsylvania State University.

Dr. Dennie’s first book, Mary Ann Shadd Cary: Essential Writings of a Nineteenth-Century Black Radical Feminist, is a primary source collection of work by and about Shadd Cary— an abolitionist, suffragist, and one of the first Black women newspaper editors in North America. Dr. Dennie’s monograph, (Re)defining Radicalism: The Rise of Black Feminism and the Politics of Respectability in the Nineteenth Century, is a study of Black women’s radical thought that is currently under contract with the University of Pennsylvania Press. In 2018, Dr. Dennie co-founded the Black Women’s Studies Association.

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