Dr. Aisha A. Upton Azzam

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I am Dr. Aisha A. Upton Azzam (she/they) and I am an  Assistant Professor of Sociology at St. Catherine University. I attained by Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Minnesota.

My research is centered around race, gender, and social movements. A large facet of my research agenda is examining Black people’s engagement with Black movements. Currently, my research has three focuses:

  1. My research involves Black women’s organizations and social movements. My book The Power We Need Right Now: Black Sororities and Black Radical Movements of the 1970s (Temple University Press) is a comparative historical project in which I examine Alpha Kappa Alpha and Delta Sigma Theta sororities’ interactions with Black radical movement making in the post-civil rights era.
  2. My research includes work on the Anti-lynching movement and the invaluable work of Ida B. Wells. In this vein, she also delves into congressional debates surrounding anti-lynching bills in the early 20th century.
  3. Lastly, my research includes work on Black feminism and Black women, broadly. I focus on topics like Black feminism’s relationship to speculative fiction (the Black feminist imagination) and the deployment of critical memory in response to the public memory of Black women like Harriet Tubman.