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Tiana is a writer, historian, and educator
She is a doctoral candidate in History at the University of Texas at Austin, with a portfolio in Women’s and Gender Studies.
Research Interests
Dissertation: Liberation for All: Recovering the Lasting Legacy of the Third World Women’s Alliance
Tiana Wilson's broader research interests include Black Women’s Internationalism, Black Women’s Intellectual History, Women of Color Organizing, and Third World Feminism. Drawing on political speeches, newsletters, articles, pamphlets, and travel logs, "Liberation for All" traces the intellectual genealogies of a “women of color” feminist praxis rooted in the Women’s Liberation Movement(s) of the 1970s and still used today for political activity. Her project examines Black women's contributions to women of color feminists groups in the U.S. from the 1960s to the present. Her project has been supported by the American Council of Learned Societies, Center for Engaged Scholarship, Sallie Bingham Center, Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women and Politics, Smith College Libraries, and the Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice.
At UT-Austin, Tiana has served as the Graduate Research Assistant for the Institute for Historical Studies, coordinator of the New Work in Progress Series, and a research fellow for the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy. She co-founded the Anti-Racism Action Committee in her home department. In the broader intellectual community, Tiana served as the National Graduate Student Representative for the Assocation of Black Women Historians. She is currently the managing editor for Black Perspectives, the leading online platform for public scholarship on global Black thought, history, and culture established by the African American Intellectual History Society.
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