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2042 CHASS INT NORTH
University of California
Riverside, CA 92521

Fisher, Tracy

Assistant Professor

College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

Women's Studies


Biography

Tracy Fisher joined the Women’s Studies Department in 2002. She is a cultural anthropologist who brings to UCR an interdisciplinary background in political science, African American studies, and anthropology. Her teaching and research focuses on issues of gender, race, diaspora, nationalism and citizenship, community organizing, and political economy. She is currently revising her dissertation for publication as a book manuscript. The dissertation examines black women’s grassroots organizing in Britain. In particular, she analyzes how larger political and economic processes articulate with local organizational strategies. Her research, both historical and ethnographic, examines the political transformations of “black” women’s grassroots organizing in Britain and the flattening of the Left, alongside shifts in Britain’s political economy.

Degrees

PhD Anthropology 2001

Graduate Center, The City University of New York

Awards

Gender and Cultural Citizenship Inter-University Working Group Grant (with Lok Siu, Kia Lilly Caldwell, Kathy Coll, Renya Ramirez, Dhooleka Raj), Rockefeller Foundation, 2002-2003
Ralph Bunche Dissertation Fellowship, The Ralph Bunche Institute on the United Nations, 1999-2000
President's (MAGNET) Dissertation Fellowship, CUNY, 1999-2000
Women's Studies Dissertation Research and Travel Grant, Jewish Foundation for Education of Women, 1999


Research Area

Gender, race, nationalism and citizenship, social movements and community activism, political economy, geographical areas: UK and US.

Publications

(Forthcoming) Low, Setha M., Dana Taplin, Suzanne Scheld, and Tracy Fisher.
Recapturing Erased Histories: Ethnicity, Design, and Cultural Representation-- A Case Study of Independence National Historical Park. In Journal of Architectural and Planning Research.

2002 Black Women, Politics, Nationalism, and Community in London. In Small Axe: A Journal of Criticism 11(6.1): 133-150.

1997 Reclaiming the Experiences of African-American Women. A Review of Leith Mullings’On Our Own Terms: Race, Class, and Gender in the Lives of African-American Women. In Race & Reason 4: 51-52.