Rachelle Berry

Dr. Rachelle Berry is an Assistant Professor in Comparative Race & Ethnic Studies at Texas Christian University's AddRan College of Liberal Arts. Their research investigates how universities perpetuate anti-Black urbanism through spatial practices that displace Black communities and institutions.

Their scholarly work employs Black Feminist Theory and autoethnographic methods to document racial justice organizing and its potential for restorative justice. Current research examines the University of Georgia's impact on Athens' Black communities and strategies for institutional rebuilding.

As a founding member of the Athena Co-Learning Collective, Dr. Berry developed Black feminist pedagogical frameworks published in Gender, Place, and Culture and Antipode. Their analysis of educational violence appears in GeoHumanities.