What are the responsibilities and job description for the Assistant Professor of Africana Studies position at The Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice?
Allison Puglisi
Assistant Professor of Africana Studies
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Curriculum Vitae
Area Of Expertise African Diaspora Studies/Africana Studies, Urban and/or Environmental Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Operational Unit Newark
Department Early Career Faculty Fellow
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Allison Puglisi is Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at Rutgers University-Newark. She received a PhD in American Studies from Harvard University and a BA in History from Dartmouth College. She is a historian of Black social movements with an emphasis on gender and ecology. Her book in progress, Where We Reside: Black Environmental Thought in New Orleans, explores how housing activists—particularly Black women—laid the groundwork for a modern Black environmental tradition.
Publications & Speaking Engagements
Publications
Organizations/Accomplishments/Upcoming Projects
Previous Organizations
How Do Social and Racial Justice Concerns Appear in Your Work?
The people I write about are part of what many today call the "environmental justice movement": an environmentalism forged out of antiracism and class struggle.
Assistant Professor of Africana Studies
- puglisi@rutgers.edu
Curriculum Vitae
Area Of Expertise African Diaspora Studies/Africana Studies, Urban and/or Environmental Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Operational Unit Newark
Department Early Career Faculty Fellow
On This page
- About
- Publications & Speaking Engagements
- Organizations/Accomplishments/Upcoming Projects
- How Do Social and Racial Justice Concerns Appear in Your Work?
Allison Puglisi is Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at Rutgers University-Newark. She received a PhD in American Studies from Harvard University and a BA in History from Dartmouth College. She is a historian of Black social movements with an emphasis on gender and ecology. Her book in progress, Where We Reside: Black Environmental Thought in New Orleans, explores how housing activists—particularly Black women—laid the groundwork for a modern Black environmental tradition.
Publications & Speaking Engagements
Publications
- “‘The Mississippi River is a Part of You’: Race, Rights, and the Riparian.” American Quarterly 77(2). 2025
- “Tenants’ Rights and Ecology.” Housing and Environmental Justice Forum. Environmental History 30(3). 2025
- “Black Americans, Civil Rights, and the Roosevelts, 1932-1962,” Exhibition at Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum, American Historical Review 129(2). 2024.
- “‘The Mississippi River is A Part of You’: Race and Ecology on the Gulf Coast.” Invited talk, Science Center Faculty Seminar Series, Wellesley College, Nov. 20, 2024
- “Black Environmental Thought in New Orleans.” Invited talk, Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program, Dartmouth College, Feb. 15, 2024
Organizations/Accomplishments/Upcoming Projects
Previous Organizations
- Vassar College (Assistant Professor of History)
- Brown University (Carol G. Lederer Postdoctoral Fellow)
- Short-Term Fellowship, Scholar-in-Residence Program, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
- Honorable Mention, Ralph Henry Gabriel Prize, American Studies Association
- Convivencia Grant, Faculty of Color Working Group
- Where We Reside: Black Environmental Thought in New Orleans (book in progress)
- Audre Lorde and the Political Uses of the (Feminist) Past (article in progress)
How Do Social and Racial Justice Concerns Appear in Your Work?
The people I write about are part of what many today call the "environmental justice movement": an environmentalism forged out of antiracism and class struggle.