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Tiffany Willoughby-Herard

Tiffany Willoughby-Herard is an American academic and author who is currently an associate professor in the Department of African American Studies at the University of California, Irvine[1] and President of the National Conference of Black Political Scientists.[2] Her research focuses on black political thought, black radical movements, and queer and trans sexualities.

Tiffany Willoughby-Herard
Born1973 (age 50–51)
NationalityAmerican
Awards2017 Mae C. King Distinguished Paper Award on Women, Gender and Black Politics

Willoughby-Herard authored the book Waste of a White Skin: The Carnegie Corporation and the Racial Logic of White Vulnerability (University of California Press 2015)[3][4][5][6][7][8] and edited the volume Theories of Blackness: On Life and Death (Cognella 2011).[9] Waste of a White Skin was reviewed widely in the academic press, including reviews by Clarence Lusane in the Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics, Grace Davie in the African Studies Review, and Annika Teppo in the Journal of Southern African Studies. [5][8][6]

Willoughby-Herard has published articles in Journal of Contemporary Thought; Cultural Dynamics; African Identities; Social Justice; National Political Science Review; Politics, Groups, & Identities; South African Review of Sociology, New Political Science, Race in Anthropology, focusing on intersectional topics in universities in the US and South Africa, among others "Mammy No More/Mammy Forever",[10] "Poetic Labors and Challenging Political Science: An Epistolary Poem",[11] and further topics such as biomedical radicalization.[12][13]

Willoughby-Herard is guest editor of special issues including: "Black Feminism and Afro-Pessimism" (2018) co-edited with M. Shadee Malaklou in Theory and Event; "Challenging the Legacies of Racial Resentment: Black Health Activism, Educational Justice, and Legislative Leadership" (2017)[14] co-edited with Julia Jordan-Zachery in the National Political Science Review; "Twenty Years of South African Democracy, Volume 1" (2015) co-edited with Abebe Zegeye in African Identities; "Cedric J. Robinson: Radical Historiography, Black Ontology, and Freedom" (2013) co-edited with H.L.T. Quan in African Identities. (Routledge 2017).

Willoughby-Herard is the former editor of the National Political Science Review (2016–2019), current book review editor for Safundi: The Journal of South African and American Studies, member of the editorial advisory board for the journal of the Critical Ethnic Studies Association.

In 2016, Willoughby-Herard was a member of the Women of Color Advisory Board to the Committee on the Status of Women in the Profession for the American Political Science Association.[15]

On September 18, 2024, Willoughby-Herard was charged with three misdemeanors for her part in the May 15, 2024 protest on UC Irvine's campus. Willoughby-Herard was charged with failure to disperse at the scene of a riot, resisting a peace officer with the threat of violence, and resisting arrest.[16] Willoughby-Herard was ordered to appear at the Central Justice Center for arraignment on October 16, 2024.[17]

Awards and memberships

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  • 2018: University of California Humanities Research Institute, Short-term Residential Research Groups, Words of Wild Survival: Wombs, Wounds, Wastelands, and Water[18]
  • 2017: Mae C. King Distinguished Paper Award on Women, Gender and Black Politics, Association for the Study of Black Women in Politics[19]
  • 2017 Pipeline Award for serving as an outstanding mentor and introducing the most students to the NCOBPS 2017 Annual Meeting
  • 2015 and 2011: UC Irvine Chancellor's Award for Fostering Undergraduate Research
  • 2009: Lucius Barker Best Paper Award in Racial and Ethnic Politics
  • Member of the LGBTQ+ Caucus of the National Conference of Black Political Scientists
  • Former president of the LGBTQ Caucus of the American Political Science Association
  • Former co-chair of the Ken Sherrill Best Dissertation on Sexuality and Politics Prize Award Committee
  • Past member of the African Politics Conference Group Best Paper Award Committee.

References

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  1. ^ "UC Irvine - Faculty Profile System". www.faculty.uci.edu. Retrieved 2019-10-25.
  2. ^ "NCOBPS President-Elect | NCOBPS". Retrieved 2019-10-25.
  3. ^ Willoughby-Herard, Tiffany (January 2015). Waste of a White Skin. Univ of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-28087-8.
  4. ^ "Calisphere: Bridget Cooks & Tiffany Willoughby-Herard". Calisphere. 14 March 2016. Retrieved 2019-11-01.
  5. ^ a b Lusane, Clarence (2017). "Waste of a White Skin: The Carnegie Corporation and the Racial Logic of White Vulnerability. Edited By Tiffany Willoughby-Herard . Oakland: University of California Press, 2015". Journal of Race, Ethnicity and Politics. 2 (2): 364–366. doi:10.1017/rep.2017.9. ISSN 2056-6085. S2CID 165034895.
  6. ^ a b Teppo, Annika (2017-05-04). "Whiteness, Race and South Africa's Colonial Project". Journal of Southern African Studies. 43 (3): 644–646. doi:10.1080/03057070.2017.1309847. ISSN 0305-7070. S2CID 197685257.
  7. ^ Feser, Stephanie (2016-07-01), Review of Willoughby-Herard, Tiffany, Waste of a White Skin: The Carnegie Corporation and the Racial Logic of White Vulnerability, H-Soz-u-Kult, H-Review, retrieved 2019-11-01
  8. ^ a b Davie, Grace (2015). "Tiffany Willoughby-Herard. Waste of a White Skin: The Carnegie Corporation and the Racial Logic of White Vulnerability. Oakland: University of California Press, 2015. xviii + 171 pp. Illustrations. Endnotes. Appendixes. Bibliography. $65.00. Cloth. ISBN-978-0-520-28086-1". African Studies Review. 58 (2): 246–248. doi:10.1017/asr.2015.52. ISSN 0002-0206. S2CID 143254447.
  9. ^ Willoughby-Herard, Tiffany (2011-03-16). Theories of Blackness on Life and Death. Cognella, Incorporated. ISBN 978-1-935551-41-6.
  10. ^ Willoughby-Herard, Tiffany (2014). "Mammy No More/Mammy Forever". In Fryberg, Stephanie A.; Martínez, Ernesto Javier (eds.). The Truly Diverse Faculty. The Future of Minority Studies. Palgrave Macmillan US. pp. 157–200. doi:10.1057/9781137456069_6. ISBN 978-1-137-45606-9. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
  11. ^ Willoughby-Herard, Tiffany (2019-01-02). "Poetic Labors and Challenging Political Science: An Epistolary Poem". Journal of Women, Politics & Policy. 40 (1): 228–235. doi:10.1080/1554477X.2019.1565465. ISSN 1554-477X. S2CID 220411209.
  12. ^ Willoughby-Herard, Tiffany (2018-02-13). "(Political) Anesthesia or (Political) Memory: The Combahee River Collective and the Death of Black Women in Custody". Theory & Event. 21 (1): 259–281. doi:10.1353/tae.2018.0010. ISSN 1092-311X. S2CID 149070993.
  13. ^ An Interview with Tiffany Willoughby-Herard, PhD., 18 October 2019, retrieved 2019-11-01
  14. ^ Willoughby-Herard, Tiffany (2017-07-05). Challenging the Legacies of Racial Resentment: Black Health Activism, Educational Justice, and Legislative Leadership. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-351-52956-3.
  15. ^ "Women of Color Advisory Board | Committee on the Status of Women in the Profession". web.apsanet.org. 22 February 2016. Retrieved 2020-06-10.
  16. ^ Edds, Kimberly. "Ten UCI Protestors Charged for Failing to Disperse After Police Deemed Campus Protest an Unlawful Assembly". Orange County District Attorney. Retrieved 20 September 2024.
  17. ^ Conybeare, Will (18 September 2024). "2 professors, 4 students among pro-Palestinian protesters charged after UC Irvine unrest". KTLA 5. Retrieved 20 September 2024.
  18. ^ "UCHRI Fall Awards". uchri.org. 21 February 2018. Retrieved 2020-06-10.
  19. ^ "Awards". ASBWP. Retrieved 2019-10-25.
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