Debjani Chakravarty
Editor

Debjani Chakravarty, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
Gender Studies
University of Utah

Debjani Chakravarty is an interdisciplinary scholar with expertise in sociology, gender studies, media studies, and religious studies. Dr. Chakravarty’s research and teaching interests include globalization and labor; feminist pedagogy and epistemology; new media; issues of gender, sexuality, religiosity, race, and class within citizenship/belonging. Her academic and activist work is guided by antiracist and anticolonial praxis. She has previously worked as a journalist and social worker in India and has published academic and artistic works exploring the topic of transnational feminisms, collaborative research ethics, and epistemic justice. Dr. Chakravarty’s latest research can be found in Sexuality and Culture, Equity and Excellence in Education, and Social & Cultural Geography. She is currently working on a project that explores the meaning and implications of gendered invisible labor.

Editor

Darius Bost, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
Ethnic Studies
University of Utah

Darius Bost’s research focuses in the areas of African American studies; feminist, gender, and sexuality studies; LGBTQ history; trauma and violence; and HIV/AIDS.  His first book, Evidence of Being: The Black Gay Cultural Renaissance and the Politics of Violence (University of Chicago Press, 2018), is an interdisciplinary study of black gay cultural movements in Washington, D.C., and New York City during the early era of the AIDS epidemic in the U.S. Evidence of Being won the Modern Language Association’s William Sanders Scarborough Prize for outstanding scholarly study of black American literature, and received Honorable Mention for the American Studies Association’s Lora Romero First Book Prize. Related research has been published in Journal of American HistoryCriticism, The Black Scholar, Souls, Palimpsest, Journal of West Indian LiteratureOccasion, and several edited collections. His research has been supported by the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University; Eccles Centre at the British Library; Woodrow Wilson Foundation; Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Social Sciences at Duke University; President’s Office and the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs at San Francisco State University; Martin Duberman Visiting Scholars Program at the New York Public Library; and Provost’s Office at the University of Pennsylvania. His current book project is a transnational study of black queer visual cultures.

Editor

Wanda Pillow, Ph.D.

Professor
Gender Studies
University of Utah

Wanda S. Pillow is Professor of Gender Studies at the University of Utah where she offers undergraduate and graduate courses in gender, race and sexuality studies; Women of Color feminisms; decolonial theory; and research methods.  Pillow’s work focuses on intersectional analyses of the relationship between subjectivity, representation, policy and lived experiences. Pillow examines how certain subjects—such as the teen mother—are historically, legally, and discursively formed across cultural productions, policy, and lived experience.  Utilizing feminist genealogy, Pillow’s publications reveal and challenge colonial epistemics in theory, methodology and practice.  Currently, Pillow is tracing colonial relations of gender, race, sexuality and citizenship through Sacajawea and York of the 1804-1806 Corps of Discovery expedition.

Silvia Patricia Solís, Ph.D.

Art Editor
Gender and Women's Studies and Environmental Studies
University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

Silvia Patricia Solís is the Art Editor for Frontiers. She is a lecturer in Gender and Women’s Studies and Environmental Studies in the School of Interdisciplinary Programs and Community Engagement at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. She received her Ph.D from the University of Utah in Social Foundations with a focus in Anthropology of Education. U.S. Feminist of color, Indigenous Feminists, and decolonial feminist theory are at the center of her theoretical foundations. Her research traces curative knowings and practices people hold in relation to taking care and curing within family and community. It centers intergenerational learning, remembering, and everyday practices in the home and gardens of Indigenous and Afro-descendant peoples in the diaspora living along the U.S. Mexico border.

Ana Antunes, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor (Lecturer)
Gender Studies
University of Utah

Dr. Ana Carolina Antunes is the Book Review Editor for Frontiers. She is originally from Rio de Janeiro Brazil, but she has lived in Salt Lake City, UT since 2006. She holds a Ph.D. in Education from the Education, Culture &Society Department at the University of Utah and is an Assistant Professor (Lecturer) in the Division of Gender Studies in the same institution. Dr. Antunes develops participatory projects with young people of refugee and immigrant backgrounds in afterschool settings and it is interested in how racialized and gendered readings of bodies mediate relationships in the educational system.

Elise Homan, M.A.

Graduate Student
Communication
University of Utah

Elise Homan is the Editorial Assistant for Frontiers. She is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Communication at the University of Utah. Her research examines the communication and rhetoric of space and place with a concentration on cross-border and transnational contexts. Her dissertation project focuses specifically on scenes of political activity and cultural production at the U.S.-Mexico borderland, exploring the entanglement of material, discursive, digital, and geographic elements of both the border’s systems of control and governmentality as well as the acts of resistance to those systems.

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