She is a Black Studies scholar and historian of Black women's internationalism and Black women's intellectual history.
She is a Black Studies scholar and historian of Black women's internationalism and Black women's intellectual history.
Dr. Tiana U. Wilson is an Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. Her book project, which examines the intellectual and international legacies of the Third World Women’s Alliance, builds on her dissertation research that received the 2024 Lerner-Scott Prize from the Organization of American Historians for the best doctoral dissertation in U.S. women’s history. She earned her Ph.D. in History from the University of Texas at Austin and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of African American Studies at The Pennsylvania State University.
Professor Wilson’s academic and public writing has appeared in the Journal of Women’s History, Journal of African American History, Women’s Studies Quarterly, Oxford Bibliographies in African American Studies, Hammer and Hope, Black Perspectives, Not Even Past, Handbook of Texas Women, Perspectives on History, and the Washington Post’s Made By History. Her research has been supported by the American Council of Learned Societies, the Center for Engaged Scholarship, the Sallie Bingham Center, Smith College, the Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women and Politics, and other institutions.
In the broader intellectual community, Dr. Wilson has served on the executive board of the Association of Black Women Historians (ABWH) and on the editorial team for the African American Intellectual History Society’s online platform, Black Perspectives. She is a co-creator of the #BuffaloSyllabus and a member of the Justice for Geraldine Pointer and Martin Sostre campaign. In Summer 2025, she co-led a Freedom School in her hometown of Buffalo, New York.