African American & African Studies
College of Liberal Arts
Twin Cities
Award Year
2019
University Award
McKnight Presidential Fellow Award
No Monument Location
Social life, serialized death, and engaged black feminist praxis
Terrion Williamson is an interdisciplinary black feminist scholar. A native of Peoria, Illinois, her first book, Scandalize My Name: Black Feminist Practice and the Making of Black Social Life (2017) uses her hometown as a primary site of interrogation. Currently, she serves as the founding director of the Black Midwest Initiative and is working on both an edited volume about blackness in the Midwest and a book titled We Cannot Live Without Our Lives, a study of black women and serial murder in the U.S.