Dayo F. Gore

Dr. Dayo F. Gore is an Associate Professor of Black Studies at Georgetown University. Prior to her current role, she served as an Associate Professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies and Critical Gender Studies program at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), where she also chaired the Department of Ethnic Studies and founded the Black Studies Project. Her academic work bridges African American and African Diasporic politics, gender and sexuality studies, and the history of 20th-century U.S. activism.

• Education: Ph.D. in History from New York University; B.A. from Northwestern University.

Her research focuses on black women’s intellectual history, transnational activism, and intersections of race, gender, and radical politics. She is the author of Radicalism at the Crossroads: African American Women Activists in the Cold War, which examines the leadership of black women radicals in the U.S. left from the 1930s to the 1960s. Additionally, she co-edited the special issue Black Women Labor: Economics, Culture and Politics for Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture and Society (2016) and contributed a chapter to We Could Turn this Whole World Over: Black Women’s Internationalism in the Twentieth Century (University of Illinois Press, 2018). She is currently completing a book on black women’s transnational activism in the long twentieth century, forthcoming from Princeton University Press.

Dr. Gore has received significant institutional support for her research, including grants and fellowships from:

• Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
• Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History at Harvard University
• Tamiment Library and Robert Wagner Labor Archives at New York University