Keisha-Khan Y. Perry

Keisha-Khan Y. Perry is the Africana Studies Graduate Chair and the Presidential Penn Compact Associate Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She previously held an Associate Professor position at Brown University. Her research focuses on race, gender, politics in the Americas, urban geography, citizenship, intellectual history, and the interplay between scholarship, pedagogy, and activism. Her book Black Women against the Land Grab received the 2014 Gloria Anzaldúa Book Prize. She is currently writing a second book examining state violence’s impact on activist research and writing.

• Research Interests: Urban geographies of racialized violence, citizenship in the Americas, feminist intellectual traditions, decolonial methodologies
• Awards: NWSA Gloria Anzaldúa Book Prize (2014)

Her work bridges academic and community engagement, emphasizing interdisciplinary approaches to social justice. She advises graduate students in Africana Studies and collaborates with scholars across disciplines. Contact: kyperry@sas.upenn.edu