Dr. Tanisha C. Ford

Editorial Board Member

CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK
 

Dr. Tanisha C. Ford is Professor of History at the Graduate Centre, City University of New York. She is the author of Dressed in Dreams: A Black Girl's Love Letter to the Power of Fashion, and Liberated Threads: Black Women, Style, and the Global Politics of Soul (UNC Press, 2015), which won the 2016 Organization of American Historians’ Liberty Legacy Foundation Award for best book on civil rights history. She studies social movement history, feminist issues, material culture, popular culture and entertainment and fashion, beauty and body politics. Her scholarly writing and cultural commentary has been featured in diverse media outlets and publications including the Journal of Southern History, NKA: Journal of Contemporary African Art, The Black Scholar, QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking, the Atlantic, the New York Times, Elle, Aperture, Bitch, The Feminist Wire, and the Root. She is a co-founder of TEXTURES, a pop-up material culture lab creating and curating content on bodies and the built environment.