SAIDA GRUNDY, PHD Boston University 100 Cummington Mall, Ste 260 Boston, Mass 02215 [email protected] | 617.358.0635

SAIDA GRUNDY, PHD Boston University 100 Cummington Mall, Ste 260 Boston, Mass 02215 Grundy@Bu.Edu | 617.358.0635

Department of Sociology & Program in African American Studies SAIDA GRUNDY, PHD Boston University 100 Cummington Mall, Ste 260 Boston, Mass 02215 [email protected] | 617.358.0635

EDUCATION

PhD | University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Sociology & Women’s Studies, 2014

MA | University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Sociology & Women’s Studies, 2014

BA | Spelman College, cum laude, 2004 Departmental Honors, Sociology & Anthropology, Comparative Women’s Studies

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS July 2015-present | Assistant Professor, Boston University Department of Sociology & Program in African American Studies (and by courtesy in Women’s & Gender Studies)

ADDITIONAL APPOINTMENTS Jan. 2021-present | Assistant Director of Narrative, Center for Antiracism Research Boston University

Nov. 2020-present | Faculty Affiliate, Center for Antiracism Research Boston University

BOOK

Grundy, Saida. forthcoming. Manhood Within the Margins: Promise, peril and paradox at the historically Black college for men. University of California Press: Berkeley, California.

REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES

Grundy, Saida. Forthcoming. “Lifting the Veil on Campus Sexual Assault: Racializing Rape Culture through the Du Boisian Len.” Social Problems.

Grundy, Saida. 2017. “A history of white violence tells us attacks on black academics are not ending (I know because it happened to me).” Ethnic and Racial Studies. 40(11), 1864-1871 o Reprinted (2019) in The New Black Sociologist. New York: Routledge. Marcus Hunter (ed.) o Reprinted (forthcoming) in When We Speak: Civility, Free Speech, and Academic Freedom in Higher Education. New York: Routledge. Reshmi Dutt-Ballerstadt (ed.)

Grundy, Saida. 2012. “’An Air of Expectancy’: Class, Crisis, and the Making of Manhood at a Historically Black College for Men.” In “Bringing Fieldwork Back In: Contemporary Urban Ethnographic Research.” Elijah Anderson, ed. The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 642(1), 43–60.

MANUSCRIPTS UNDER REVIEW OR IN PREPARATION Grundy | CV | Fall 2020 | 1

Eschmann, Robert, Gregg Harbaugh, Saida Grundy, and Lei Guo, “Digital rage: Testing ‘the Obama Effect’ on Internet-based expressions of racism” (under review at New Media & Society).

Grundy, Saida. “Gendering Social Justice Capitalism: Politics and Paradox in the practice of Black Male Success Initiatives” (in preparation)

BOOK CHAPTERS

Ouer, Freeden and Saida Grundy. In press. “Allyship in the Time of Black Death.” In Black Feminist Sociology: Perspectives and Praxis, edited by Zakiya Luna and Whitney Pirtle. Milton Park: Routledge Press.

BOOK REVIEWS

Grundy, Saida. 2019. “Race in Appalachia” (a review of Gone Home: Race and Roots Through Appalachia by Karida Brown. Contexts. 18(4), 48–49.

Grundy, Saida. 2018. “Sure, the Personal is Political…but Then So Are Our Contradictions” (a review of Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpowers by Brittney Cooper. Signs: Journal of Women & Culture in Society.

Grundy, Saida. 2015. The Black Power Movement and American Social Work, by Joyce Bell, 2014. Humanity & Society. 40(2). 206-208

ESSAYS AND OTHER PUBLISHED WORKS

2020 | Grundy, Saida. “The False Promise of Antiracism Books.” The Atlantic. July 21. 2020 | Grundy, Saida. “Why Boredom Affects us So Much.” The Atlantic. April 17. 2019 | Grundy, Saida. “The Flawed Logic of R. Kelly’s Most Unlikely Supporters.” The Atlantic. January 10. 2018 | Grundy, Saida. “The Risky Business of Branding Black Pain” The Atlantic. September 14.

Additionally featured, referenced or interviewed in The New York Times, The Washington Post, National Public Radio, the Public Broadcasting Station (WGBH affiliate), Boston Public Radio (WGBH), Huffpost Live, and ESPN.com, The Undefeated, and Divided We Fall. Appears as a regular featured expert on the award winning “In Those Genes” podcast (featured in The New York Times, produced by Spotify).

FELLOWSHIPS Spring 2019 | Junior Faculty Fellowship, Boston University Center for the Humanities

Fall 2018 | Woodrow Wilson Career Enhancement Fellowship Supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

ongoing | Yale Urban Ethnography Project, Junior Fellow (non-residential) Department of Sociology, Yale University

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2005-2014 | SSRC-Mellon Mays Graduate Initiatives Fellow Social Science Research Council

RESEARCH & TEACHING INTERESTS

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Boston University | Sociology 335/ Women & Gender Studies 335/ AFAM 335; Race, Class & Gender Sociology 207/ AFAM 207; Sociology of Race & Ethnicity Sociology 408/808 AFAM 408/808; Racial & Ethnic Minorities

Sue Bailey Thurman Teaching Award, Boston University, 2017

University of Michigan | Sociology 345/Women’s Studies 348, Sociology of Sexuality (Summer 2009) (Instructor of Record) Women’s Studies 245, Introduction to LGBTQ Studies (Winter 2011) Sociology 304, American Immigration (Fall 2008) Sociology 100, Introduction to Sociology (Fall 2007, Winter 2008) Sociology 345/Women’s Studies 348, Sociology of Sexuality (Fall 2011) Psychology 310/Sociology 320: Process on InterGroup Relations (Fall 2006)

INVITED TALKS

2020 | Radio Guest, WGBH Boston Public Radio “You Can’t Read Your Way into Antiracism”

2020 | Featured Guest, Give Theory a Chance podcast, episode on WEB Du Bois.

2020 | Keynote Speaker, 26th Annual W.E.B. DuBois Lecture, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA

2020 | Panelist, Invited session on Sexual Harassment in Academia, annual meeting of the Organization of American History, Washington, DC. [postponed` due to COVID-19]

2019 | Presenter, Yale University Urban Ethnography Workshop. New Haven, CT.

2019 | Speaker and Panelist, “Voter Suppression: The Greatest Threat to American Democracy.” with Rep. Ayanna Pressley [D-MA], Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum, Prof. Christina Greer [Fordham], Herve Gouraige, and Pratt Wiley. Union Chapel Speaker Series. Oak Bluffs, MA.

2018 | Panelist, “The Triple Consciousness: Women, Race & Politics in the 21st Century” (with Nicole Hemmer [UVA], Leah Wright-Rigueur [Harvard], Union Chapel Speaker Series. Oak Bluffs, MA.

2018 | Speaker, Departmental Lecture Series, Department of Sociology, UMass Amherst. March 2018.

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2018 | Panelist, “Stealing Culture: The Complicated Politics of Cultural Appropriation,” Program in African American Studies, Boston University, Boston, MA.

2018 | Faculty Speaker, “Furthering the Common Ground: BU’s Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion,” Boston University, Boston, MA.

2018 | Panelist, “#MeToo/#YouToo? What We Know about Sexual Harassment.” Moderated by Prof. Virginia Sapiro, Political Science, Boston University, Boston, MA.

2017 | Panelist, “Whose Streets: A Film Screening and Conversation,” Boston University, Boston, MA.

2017 | Panelist, Conversations on Race Series, “Linked Fates, Forming Ranks: How Can Solidarity Make Us Stronger?”, Boston University, Boston, MA.

2017 | Panelist, “A Long Walk Home: Stories of Rape Survivors” Tufts University, Medford, MA. April

2017 | Panelist, Harvard Kennedy School, Ash Center for Democratic Governance, “White Nationalism: Media and the Lessons from Charlottesville” (With Prof. Nicole Hemmer, Tyler Bridges, moderated by Karen Finney). Cambridge, MA.

2017 | Panelist, Dialogue on Race and Sexual Assault, Tufts University, Medford, MA.

2017 | Speaker, Campus Lecture Series, Simmons College, Boston, MA.

Studio Guest, WGBH Boston Public Broadcasting (PBS Syndicate), Basic Black: September 2017 | “For Black Women It’s More Than Just Hair” October 2017 | “The Cannabis Industry and People of Color” January 2018 | “What Trump's First Year Means to Communities of Color"

2017 | Keynote Speaker and Panelist, Union Chapel Speaker Series, “Race & Democracy in the 21st Century” (with Michael Eric Dyson and John Stauffer). Oak Bluffs, MA.

2017 | Panelist, Day of Action Conference, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, “The Responsibility of Intellectuals Today” (Keynote panel with Noam Chomsky, Junot Diaz, and Naomi Oreskes). Cambridge, MA.

2017 | Moderator, “From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: A Conversation with Prof. Elizabeth Hinton (Harvard University),” New Democracy Coalition Speaker Series. Boston, MA.

2017 | Moderator, “Race Matters: A Conversation with Prof. Cornel West (Harvard University), New Democracy Coalition Speaker Series. Boston, MA.

2017 | Speaker, Departmental Lecture Series, Department of Sociology, Brown University.

2017 | Speaker, Campus Lecture Series, Department of Women & Gender Studies, Simmons College.

2016 | Speaker, Departmental Lecture Series, Department of Sociology, Boston College.

2016 | Moderator, Conversations on Race Series, “Racing to the Top: Black Voters and the 2016 Election with Prof. Leah Wright-Rigueur (Harvard) Boston University, Boston, MA.

2016 | Guest Lecturer, “Race, Class & Classism in Higher Education,” University of Alabama

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2016 | Plenary Speaker, Berea College, “Race & Democracy in the 21st Century.” (alongside plenaries by bell hooks, Peggy McIntosh, and Tim Wise). Berea, KY.

2016 | Plenary Speaker and Panelist, “My Day Job: Politics and Pedagogy in Academia,” Annual Meeting of the Eastern Sociological Association, Boston, MA.

2015 | Panelist, University Dialogue Series, Framingham State University.

2016 | Moderator, “Democracy in Black: A Conversation with Prof. Eddie Glaude (Princeton University),” New Democracy Coalition Speaker Series. Boston, MA.

2016 | Series, Program in African-American Studies, Boston University. Spring 2016.

ACADEMIC AND CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

2020 | Presenter, “When the cultural curriculum comes first at the Historically Black College for Men" regular session, Intersections of Race, Gender and Class in School, Work and the Home. Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association. August 8-11. (virtual conference due to COVID-19)

2020 | Presenter, Unequal Freedom: Power, Civility and Free Speech in Higher Education.” Invited session, Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association. August 8-11. (virtual conference due to COVID-19)

2019 | Presenter, Special Presidential Plenary, “Black Picket Fences, Twenty Years Later,” Annual Meeting of the Association of Black Sociologists. New York, NY.

2019 | Presenter, Masculinity and Sexuality, Invited session of the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Society. New York, NY.

2019 | Presenter, The Citation Inflation of White Masculinity, Invited session of the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Society. New York, NY.

2019 | Opening Plenary Presenter, Annual Convening of the Du Bois Scholar Network, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island

2018 | Presenter and Participant, Social Science Research Council/ Mellon Mays Graduate Initiatives PhD Professional Development Conference, New York, NY.

2018 | Organizer and Presenter (thematic session) “The Emotionality of Social Justice Work,” Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association. Philadelphia, PA.

2018 | Presenter (Invited Session) “On White Supremacy and Free Speech: Backlashes, Academic Freedom, Gendered and Racial Violence and Four Women Taking the Hit” National Women’s Studies Association. Atlanta, GA.

2018 | Presenter (Invited Session), “The White Gaze on the Black Middle Class: Gender, Perils and Politics” on thematic session Critical Race Theory and the Impossibility of Integration: Racially Realistic Strategizing for Social Change” Eastern Sociological Society. Baltimore, MD.

2018 | Presenter (Invitation-only Conference) Smiling to their Faces: Race, Emotional Labour and the University, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC.

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2018 | Presenter (Invited), First Annual Meeting of The Du Boisian Scholar Network, Northwestern, University, Evanston, IL.

2018 | Presenter, Invited Session, “The New Black Middle Class and An Autopsy of Integration” Annual Meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society. Baltimore, MD.

2018 | Organizer and Presenter, Presidential Plenary on Outsider Sociology, “Methodologies from the Outside and Up.” Annual Meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society. ?Baltimore, MD.

2017 | Presenter, “The Myth of Transraciality” Annual Meeting of the Association of Humanist Sociologists. The University of Havana. Havana, Cuba.

2017 | Presenter, “White Violence and Attacks on Black Academics.” Eastern Sociological Society. Philadelphia, PA.

2016 | Presenter, “Black Feminist Faculty: Agency and Vulnerability Against Attacks” Association of Black Sociologists. Memphis, TN. 2016 | Presenter, “Revising Rape: Making sense of sexual violence and toxic respectability politics for middle class Black masculinity” o Eastern Sociological Association. Boston, Mass. o 37th Annual Research Forum of Education in Ethnography. University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education. Philadelphia, PA.

2015 | Participant, New England Workshop on Ethnicity and Race, Semi-Annual Meeting.. Quinnipiac, CT.

2014 | Participant Urban Ethnography Conference, (Invitation-Only) Yale University. New Haven, Connecticut. 2014 | Plenary Panelist, UNCF/Mellon Programs Conference, October 2014. Atlanta, GA.

2014 | Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship “Preparing for the Professoriate” Conference, Philadelphia, PA.

2013 | Invited participant, Roundtable Luncheon on Black men and Boys with Prof. Nikki Jones. Institute for Research on Women and Gender Special, University of Michigan. Prof. Sarah Fenstermaker, Organizer. Ann Arbor, Michigan.

2012 | Presenter, “An Air of Expectancy: Class, Crisis and the Making of Manhood at the Historically Black Male College.” Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association. Denver, Colorado.

2012 | "Brand Management: dressing up Black male respectability at the historically Black college for men" Paper accepted to the Winter Annual Meeting of Sociologists for Women in Society. St. Petersburg, Florida.

2011 | Presenter. “Ethnographic Approaches to Middle Class Black Masculinity.” Mini-Conference on Urban Ethnography, Urban Ethnography Project, Yale University. Elijah Anderson, Director and Organizer. New Haven, Connecticut.

2011 | Presenter “Manhood Within the Margins: Culture, Crisis and Masculinity in the Making of Middle-Class Black Men.” Annual Winter Meeting of Sociologists for Women in Society. San Antonio, Texas.

2020 | Invited Presenter. Bringing Fieldwork Back In: An Ethnography Retreat, Urban Ethnography Project, Yale University. Prof. Elijah Anderson, Director. New Haven, Connecticut.

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2009 | Presenter. “Of Our Masculine Strivings: The Task of Black Middle-Class Patriarchy in Racial Uplift Ideology.” Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association. San Francisco, California.

2009 | Presenter. “Off the Corner: How Images of Black Male Deviance Shape Gender, Class, and Respectability for Middle Class Black Men.” Heart of the City: Conference on Black Urban Life on the Wire, University of Michigan. Ann Arbor, Michigan.

“So to Bind Each Son the Other: The Clash of Race, Class and Hegemonic Masculinity at the Historically Black All- Male College.” o Presenter. Annual Chicago Ethnography Conference. Northwestern University. Evanston, Illinois. 2009. o Presenter. Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association. August Boston, Massachusetts. 2008.

JOURNAL EDITORIAL AND REVIEW SERVICE

*denotes editorial board membership

ORGANIZATIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

American Sociological Association (ASA) (Sections on Racial & Ethnic Minorities; Race, Class & Gender*; and Sexualities & Gender) The Du Boisian Scholars Network* | Eastern Sociological Society Society for the Study of Social Problems* (Division on Racial & Ethnic Minorities) Association of Black Sociologists | Sociologists for Women in Society | Southern Sociological Society New England Workshop on Ethnicity & Race (invitation only) | The HistoryMakers*

*denotes board membership or office

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE 2020-present | Council Member-at-Large, Section on Race Gender and Class, American Sociological Association (elected; three-year term) 2019-present | Program Committee, Society for the Study of Social Problems (two-year term) 2019- 2020 | National Co-Chair, LGBT People of Color Archive Network (funded by the Ford Foundation) 2017-2018 | Advisory Board Member, The HistoryMakers digital archive 2016-present | Advisor, Union Chapel Speaker Series 2017-2018 | Organizer, Presidential Plenary, “Outsider Scholarship, Outsider Sociology.” Eastern Sociological Society. February 2018. 2017-2018 | Member, Komarovsky Book Award Selection Committee, Eastern Sociological Society. 2017-2018 | Member, American Sociological Association Section on Ethnic and Racial Minorities Founder’s Award Committee 2017-present | Faculty Mentor, Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship, Harvard University

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2016-present | Faculty Advisor, Minority Connection Initiative, Boston University, 2016-present. 2017-2018 | Organizer, Regular Session on Emotionality and Social Justice Work. Annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Social Problems. August 2018. Philadelphia, PA. 2016-2017 | Organizer, Regular Session on The Black Middle Class: New Intersections. Annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Social Problems. August 2017. Montreal, QB. 2016-2017 | Organizer, Regular Session on Intersectionality and The Du Boisian Tradition. Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association. August 2017. Montreal, QB. 2016-2017 | Chair, Article Award Committee, Society for the Study of Social Problems (Division on Racial and Minorities). 2016-2017.

UNIVERSITY AND DEPARTMENTAL SERVICE 2019-present | Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Advisory Committee, Department of Sociology, Boston University 2020 Gender Search Committee, Department of Sociology, Boston University (2018-2020) Search Committee, Wein Endowed Chair in African-American Studies. 2016-2017. Co-Chair, Gender-Sexuality Faculty Workgroup and Symposium Series. Boston University. 2017- 2018. Organizer, Eve Sedgewick Annual Keynote Address

Undergraduate Academic Program Committee, Department of Sociology. 2016-2018

Graduate Admissions Committee, Program in African American Studies. 2016-2017.

Dean’s Advisory Committee for the Howard Thurman Center Initiative. Fall 2016.

Chair, Speaker Series, Program in African-American Studies, 2016-2017

Founding member, BU Junior Faculty Writing Collective, 2016-present Planning Committee, BU Conversations on Race Series (2017-2018) Faculty Advisory Board Member, founder of Faculty Office Hours Series, BU Minority Connection Initiative

REFERENCES

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Catherine Connell Deborah Carr Alford Young, Jr. Associate Professor Chair & Professor Arthur F. Thurnau Professor Department of Sociology Department of Sociology Department of Sociology & Boston University University of Michigan [email protected] [email protected] Director Program in Women’s & Gender Studies Elijah Anderson Karyn Lacy Boston University [email protected] Sterling Professor of Sociology Associate Professor and African American Studies Department of Sociology Louis Chude-Sokei Yale University University of Michigan [email protected] [email protected] Professor Department of English Virginia Sapiro Nazli Kibria & Professor Professor George & Joyce Wein Chair/Director Department of Political Science Department of Sociology Program in African American Studies & Boston University & Dean Emerita Associate Dean of Social Sciences [email protected] College of Arts & Sciences College of Arts & Sciences Boston University Boston University Ibram X. Kendi [email protected] [email protected] Andrew W. Mellon Professor Department of History & Founding Director Center for Antiracist Research Boston University [email protected]

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