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 Curriculum Vitae | Saida Grundy, Ph.D. | [email protected] 2 of 9 2005-2014 | SSRC-Mellon Mays Graduate Initiatives Fellow Social Science Research Council RESEARCH & TEACHING INTERESTS Race & Ethnicity | Gender & Sexuality| Men & Masculinities | Campus Sexual Assault Black Middle Class & Elites| Sociology of Culture | Qualitative Methodology Feminist Theory | Du Boisian Sociology 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. Curriculum Vitae | Saida Grundy, Ph.D. | [email protected] 3 of 9 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 Curriculum Vitae | Saida Grundy, Ph.D. | [email protected] 4 of 9 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