Screening of Malcolm X

Director of International Studies, Associate Professor Women's Gender, and Sexuality Studies and African American Studies. Dr. Adair is an interdisciplinary feminist historian. A passionate and experienced teacher-scholar. Dr. Adair teaches courses on Black Feminist theory, African American Women’s History, Introduction to African American Studies, Gender and Popular Culture and Black Protest Music. Adair's research revolves around the feminist dimensions of Black American cultural history in the areas of  Black internationalism and transnational Black expressive culture. Her scholarship has appeared in numerous peer reviewed journals and edited volumes. She is working on a single authored book, “Furious Spectacle: Black Women, Transnational Performance and Global Black Freedom Struggles" that explores how Black women performers helped to shape Black internationalism and Black liberation movements of the late 19th and early 20th century. She is the recipient of many grants and fellowships including a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Schomborg Scholar in Residence postdoctoral fellowship. She has also held a visiting professorship in American Studies at Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany. She is a Co-Director of the Scholars Working Group, Shared and Contested Spaces and Identities: American Jews and African Americans hosted by the Center for Jewish History in New York, NY. Dr. Adair earned her Ph.D. in Women’s Studies from the University of Washington. She was born and raised in the Bay Area of California and enjoys traveling and reading and playing with her dog.