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Tatiana M.F. Cruz is an Assistant Professor and Interdisciplinary Program Director of Africana Studies and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Simmons University's Department of Race, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Her work bridges African American and Latinx histories, urban social movements, and oral history methodologies. She co-founded the North Star Collective, a regional consortium advancing faculty racial equity in New England higher education.
Education: PhD, History (University of Michigan); Graduate Certificate in African American and Diasporic Studies (University of Michigan); MA, History (University of Michigan); BA, History & American Studies (Williams College).
Research focuses on Boston's racial politics, with a forthcoming book Deep North Uprising (UPenn Press). Her writing appears in Journal of Urban History and New England Quarterly, alongside chapters on urban social movements and academic equity. Awards include ACE's 2024 DEIJ Award and Simmons' 2021 Innovative Teaching Award.
Grants include support from the Woodrow Wilson Fellowship Foundation, Harvard's Ash Center, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. She teaches courses such as Behind the Veil: Simmons Black Oral History Project and advises on DEIJ initiatives.
