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Nicole A. Waligora-Davis is an Alan Dugald McKillip Associate Professor of English and Associate Dean for Undergraduate Programs and Special Projects at Rice University's Department of English and Creative Writing. Her research focuses on late 19th- and 20th-century African American and American literary/cultural criticism, emphasizing black intellectual history, legal studies, and visual culture. She holds a Ph.D. from Duke University.
Her work includes the award-winning book *Sanctuary: African Americans and Empire* (Oxford, 2011) and contributions to volumes like the *Cambridge History of African American Literature*. She co-edited the acclaimed *Remembering Jim Crow* (2001), which received an award. Current projects explore race, forensics, and black life's valuation in *The Murder Book*.
Waligora-Davis teaches courses on African American literature, critical race theory, and interdisciplinary humanities. Her scholarship bridges legal studies and literary analysis, interrogating how race intersects with empire, identity, and visual representation.
