Title
Assistant Professor

Department
Dept of Gender and Women's Studies


Faculty URL
https://womensstudies.berkeley.edu/about/department-faculty/courtney-desiree-mo…

Email
cdm36@berkeley.edu


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Research Expertise and Interest
black women's social movement, state violence and authoritarianism, racial formations in Latin American, racial formations in the Caribbean, racial formations in the U.S., critical race theory, feminist and queer theory, environmental ethics, black visual culture and aestetics

Research Description
Courtney Desiree Morris is a visual/conceptual artist and an assistant professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She teaches courses on critical race theory, feminist theory, black social movements in the Americas, women’s social movements in Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as race and environmental politics in the African Diaspora. She is a social anthropologist and is currently completing a book entitled?To Defend this Sunrise: Black Women’s Activism and the Geography of Race in Nicaragua, which examines how black women activists have resisted historical and contemporary patterns of racialized state violence, economic exclusion, territorial dispossession, and political repression from the 19th century to the present. She is currently developing a new project on the racial politics of energy production and dispossession in the US Gulf South and South Africa. Her work has been published in?American Anthropologist, the?Bulletin of Latin American Research, the?Journal of Women, Gender, and Families of Color,?make/shift: feminisms in motion, and?Asterix. To see her art work visit?www.courtneydesireemorris.com.