Jane Rhodes
Associate Dean for Research in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Interdisciplinary Programs; Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; and Community Engagement
Research in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Interdisciplinary Programs; Diversity, Equity and Inclusion; and Community Engagement
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About
Jane Rhodes is Professor of Black Studies and Associate Dean for Faculty Research and Programs in Humanities, Social Science and Interdisciplinary Studies. She served as head of the Department of Black Studies from 2015-2021. Rhodes earned a doctorate from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and has been a faculty member at SUNY-Cortland, Indiana University, the University of California-San Diego, and Macalester College. Rhodes’ research interests include the history of the Black press, media representations of Black social movements, African American women’s history and cultures of resistance, and Trans-Atlantic Black Studies. She has published two monographs, Mary Ann Shadd Cary: The Black Press and Protest in the Nineteenth Century and Framing the Black Panthers: The Spectacular Rise of a Black Power Icon (both in a second edition) as well as numerous articles, chapters and reports. Rhodes has held several fellowships including postdocs from the Ford Foundation and the University of California, a residency at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and visiting fellowships at the Universities of Cambridge, Bristol and London, all in the UK. She is also co-PI of a grant from the Mellon Foundation titled “Humanizing Critical Race Theory.” She is in the midst of two book-length projects: Trans-Atlantic Blackness in the Era of Jim Crow: The Life of Marie Battle Singer; and Rebel Media: Radical Print Culture in the New Negro Era.