Professor Paula Giddings

Paula Giddings is the author of two books on the social and political history of African-American women: When and Where I Enter: The Impact on Black Women on Race and Sex in America: and In Search of Sisterhood: Delta Sigma Theta and the Challenge of the Black Sorority Movement.  She is also the editor of Burning All Illusions, an anthology of articles on race published by the Nation magazine from 1867 to 2000.  She’s also a former book editor and journalist who has written extensively on international and national issues and has been published by the Washington Post, the New York Times, the Philadelphia Inquirer, Jeune Afrique (Paris), The Nation, and the journals Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism and Sage: A Scholarly Journal on Black Women among other publications.  Before attaining the position of  Professor of African-American Studies at Smith College, Ms. Giddings had taught at Spelman College, where she was a United Negro Fund Distinguished Scholar; Douglass College/Rutgers University as the Laurie Chair in Women’s Studies; and Princeton and Duke Universities.  Her forthcoming biography of the anti-lynching activist Ida B. Wells will be published by Harper/Collins.

Paula Giddings joined Smith College in 2001. She serves as the Senior Editor of Meridians, a new, peer-reviewed feminist, interdisciplinary journal whose goal is to provide a forum for the finest scholarship and creative work by and about women of color in U.S. and international contexts.  The journal is a collaborative venture of Smith College and Wesleyan University. She has served as the AAS Department Chair and Honor Thesis advisor.