Participant Info
- First Name
- Sanyu
- Last Name
- Mulira
- Country
- United States
- State
- CA California
- srm528@nyu.edu
- Affiliation
- Spelman College
- Website URL
- Keywords
- 20th century Women’s History in the Francophone Black Atlantic (Martinique, Guadeloupe, Senegal), women’s Francophone writing, Black Feminism, Pan Africanist, Black Internationalism, Women’s Activism
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
I received my PhD in African Diaspora History from New York University in 2023. My dissertation is entitled, “‘We Were But Women’: Print Culture, Anti-Colonialism, and Activism Amongst Black Women in the Francophone Diaspora, 1920-1976.” My project explores transnational nodes of women activists and intellectuals and analyzes how women reconsidered their relationship to the French Empire and their African roots. I have completed extensive research in France and the French Caribbean on the history of black women’s organizing, feminist activism, and involvement in anti-colonial movements.
Currently, I teach full-time at Spelman College in the Department of International Studies and the African Diaspora in the World program. Prior to joining Spelman, I taught Pan-African studies and general Ethnic Studies courses at California State University, Sacramento.
- Recent Publications
Revisiting Sembene’s Women: The Four of Xala (2020)
A Life Lived Between Autobiography, Fiction, and History: Maryse Condé (2016)
Edouard Glissant and the African Roots of Creolization (2015)
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- Country Focus
- Martinique, Guadeloupe, Senegal
- Expertise by Geography
- Africa, Atlantic, Caribbean, France
- Expertise by Chronology
- 20th century
- Expertise by Topic
- Colonialism, Literary History, Race, Women
