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Dr. Deidre Hill Butler is a Full Professor and Chair of the Department of Sociology at Union College, where she made history as the first Black woman to earn tenure and achieve full professorship. She previously served as Director of Faculty Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging and co-founded key campus initiatives including the BIPOC Employee Alliance and Women of Color Collective.
Her research centers on Black Women’s Culture, employing Womanist ethnography to explore anti-racism, Afrofuturism, archival methods, and Black Feminist Geographies. She integrates public theology and culturally responsive education to study themes of kinship, wellness, and identity.
Teaching includes interdisciplinary courses like Sociology of Black Religious Experiences, Political Sociology: Black Freedom Studies, and cross-cultural family studies. She has taught internationally at the University of Galway and in Senegal.
Distinctions:
- First Black woman tenured professor at Union College
- First Black woman Full Professor at Union College
She advises Seward Scholar Projects and mentors through the Multicultural Greek Council. Community leadership includes roles at Safe Inc., Schenectady NAACP, and Duryee Memorial AME Zion Church.
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