Griselda Thomas

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Griselda Thomas
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Griselda Thomas is a Professor of English and Interdisciplinary Studies at Kennesaw State University. She currently teaches courses in African American literature and culture, Black feminist studies, and African & African Diaspora studies. Her Black feminist class “The Black Woman.” is currently participating in the Woman Leadership Virtual Exchange Program with the University of Hassan ll in Casablanca, Morocco sponsored by a Steven’s Initiative Grant. Her research and publications explore the politics of the Black female body, spirituality in the fiction of contemporary Black women writers, cultural influences in the Black community, and online pedagogy. One of her most recent publications is “A Small Piece of Blue Fabric: The Significance of Yemonja in Phyllis Alesia Perry’s Stigmata,” a chapter in Recovering the African Feminine Divine in Literature, the Arts, and Practice: Yemonja Awakening (Lexington Press, 2021). Her current research explores how the actions and writings of women motivated, resisted, and documented white race riots in Georgia and North Carolina.

Dr. Thomas’ teaching, scholarship, and service are guided by her commitment to diversity and equity, interdisciplinary studies, and the intersectional inquiry of systems of oppression. She is committed to the mentoring and professional development of students living and working at the margins. In 2018, she was the recipient of the Interdisciplinary Studies Department’s Outstanding Diversity Advocate Award, the College of Humanities Social Sciences Outstanding Diversity Advocate Award, the Presidential Commission on Racial and Ethnic Diversity R.O.H. Social Justice Award, and the Kennesaw State University Diversity Advocate Award.
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2023
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