Desireé R. Melonas is an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Black Study and Political Science. Her research focuses on the rhythmic and inductive aspects of racialized place, black feminist new materialisms, and the politics of radical care. Her work has appeared in the Journal of Women, Politics & Policy, National Review of Black Politics, Meridians, Theory and Event, and Women’s Studies Quarterly: WSQ. In addition, she is a co-principal investigator on a National Academies of the Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Gulf Research Program Grant to co-develop environmental justice-focused curricular interventions throughout schools in and around Africatown, Alabama. Finally, Desireé is a 2020-2021 Woodrow Wilson Career Enhancement Fellow and an aspiring doula.
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