Welcome Dr. Faye Harrison

The DISE Collective would like to welcome its newest member and elder, Dr. Faye Harrison! Her work has been of great influence, and she has mentored and worked with the Collective for years.

Dr. Harrison is Professor of African American Studies and Anthropology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is also affiliated with UIUC’s research centers related to Global Gender Equity, African Studies, and Latin American & Caribbean Studies. An alumna of Brown and Stanford, she is an anthropologist and African diaspora specialist who examines the interplay of culture, politics and political economy through a genderaced lens. She also works on the history and sociology of knowledge production with an emphasis on epistemic decolonization, deimperialization, and depatriarchalization. She has been a visiting professor at universities in Japan, South Africa, and Suriname as well as given seminars, workshops and lectures in academic and civil society settings in Brazil, China, Germany, Hungary, and India. She is a past president of the Association of Black Anthropologists (1989-1991) and the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (2013-2018).   For more than a decade, she chaired the Commission on the Anthropology of Women, a unit of the IUAES. 

For more information: https://afro.illinois.edu/directory/profile/fvharrsn