Tiffany Willoughby-Herard

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Associate Professor of Global & International Studies
Affiliate Faculty, Political Science
Affiliate Faculty, Comparative Literature
Professor Extraordinarius in the Chief Albert Luthuli Research Chair, University of South Africa
Ph.D., UC SANTA BARBARA, POLITICAL SCIENCE
University of California, Irvine
519 Social Sciences Tower
Mail Code: 5100
Irvine, CA 92697
Research Interests
South Africa, poor whites, race in foreign policy, diaspora, comparative racial politics, black political thought, third world feminisms, feminist pedagogy, decolonizing theory, comparative political theory, community and civic engagement, radical thought
Academic Distinctions
Academic Senate Distinguished Faculty Award for Mentorship, Academic Senate of the University of California, Irvine, 2021-22.

Dynamic Womxn of UC Irvine Award, UCI Womxn’s Hub, 2020

Lee Ann Fujii MFP Annual Meeting Travel Grant, American Political Science Association, August, $500

Mae C. King Distinguished Paper Award on Women, Gender and Black Politics, Awarded in 2017 for the Paper, “(Political) Anesthesia or (Political) Memory: Medicalized Surveillance, Traffic Stop Murders, Death in Custody.” For Demonstrated Excellence in Quality of Scholarship and Presentation, and Contribution to the Study of Black Women and Politics, Given in Honor of Dr. Mae C. King, A Pioneering Scholar Activist Who Helped Pave the Way for the Study of Women, Gender, and Black Politics, Association for the Study of Black Women in Politics. http://www.humanities.uci.edu/SOH/slide_det.php?id=659

Pipeline Award 2017, For serving as an outstanding mentor and introducing the most students to the NCOBPS 2017 Annual Meeting, National Conference of Black Political Scientists

Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Fostering Undergraduate Research 2015, Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program, Division of Undergraduate Education, University of California, Irvine.

Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Fostering Undergraduate Research 2011, Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program, Division of Undergraduate Education, University of California, Irvine.

Lucius Barker Best Paper Award in Racial and Ethnic Politics, 2009, Midwest Political Science Association for "Rethinking Hip Hop Through the Politics of Uplift:Culture, Politics, and the Racial Wealth Divide." Awarded April 2010.

Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, UC Santa Barbara, Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, $5,000.
Appointments
University of California President's Postdoctoral Fellow, UC San Diego, Department of Ethnic Studies, Prof. Denise Da Silva (Mentor)
Research Abstract
My research examines the international dimensions of racialization, racial identities, and the racialization of poverty. I study philanthropic and educational organizations that have had a global reach to talk about the production of traveling academic and popular debates about race, culture, poverty, and work. I am particularly concerned with the influence that scholars from South Africa and the United States have had on each other in the framing of their distinctive national debates about race and post-raciality. As a comparative political theorist I am concerned about the function of race and enslavement in national identity which has important implications for theories of citizenship, immigration, democracy, and justice.

My book, "Waste of a White Skin: The Carnegie Corporation and the Racial Logic of White Vulnerability" analyzes the political and historical impact and effects of the Carnegie Commission Study of Poor Whites in South Africa, 1927-1932. Waste of a White Skin is a study of the international dimensions of racialization of the poor in South Africa. Through attention to racial and class formations deployed by philanthropic organizations and social scientists in the United States and South Africa, I consider the politics of scientific racism and civilizing missions in particular with regard to the construction of the social identity “poor whites.”

Q&A with Tiffany Willoughby-Herard, Between the Lines, UCI School of Humanities Magazine, Spring 2015.

COURSES REGULARLY TAUGHT
Black Radical Tradition and Black Feminist Internationalism
Feminist Pedagogies and Ethics
Ethics, Erotics and Will
The Black Radical Tradition and Cedric J. Robinson
Race in U.S. Foreign Policy
South African Social Identities
Fanon and Feminism
African Diaspora
African Gender Studies: Oyèrónk?´ Oyewùmí and the Politics of Knowledge
African Feminism
Black Feminist Research Methods
Black Digital Humanities (co-taught with Jessica Millward)

Awards and Honors
Rockefeller Foundation Fellow, National Humanities Center (USA) 2022-23
Publications
BOOKS

Sasinda Futhi Siselapha: Black Feminist Approaches to Cultural Studies in South Africa’s Twenty Five Years Since 1994, edited by Derilene (Dee) Marco, Tiffany Willoughby-Herard, and Abebe Zegeye, Trenton: Africa World Press, 2020.

Waste of a White Skin: The Carnegie Corporation and the Racial Logic of White Vulnerability (University of California Press, 2015).

Theories of Blackness: On Life and Death. San Diego: University Readers and Cognella, 2011.
EDITED WORKS
2022 Special Issue: Black Feminism and The Practices of Care Palimpsest: A Journal on Women, Gender, and the Black International 11(1) : 1-212. Guest Edited by Aisha Finch, Jessica Millward, and Tiffany Willoughby-Herard.

2019 Forward! National Political Science Review (1989-2019). National Political Science Review 20(3): vii-208. Editor: Tiffany Willoughby-Herard.

2019 Political Theory and Political History: Under Threat of Violent Erasure. National Political Science Review 20(2): vii-203. Editor: Tiffany Willoughby-Herard. https://www.ncobps.org/assets/uploads/2020/09/Volume-20.2-National-Political-Science-Review.pdf

2019. Institutional Decolonization: Toward a Comprehensive Black Politics. Editor: Tiffany Willoughby-Herard. National Political Science Review 20(1): 235 pp.

2018. Special Issue: Black Feminism and Afro-Pessimism. Guest Editors: M. Shadee Malaklou and Tiffany Willoughby-Herard. Theory and Event 21(1): 2-318. http://muse.jhu.edu/issue/37987

2016. Challenging the Legacies of Racial Resentment: Black Health Activism, Educational Justice, and Legislative Leadership. Editors: Tiffany Willoughby-Herard and Julia Jordan-Zachery. National Political Science Review 18 (Newark: Transaction Publishers), 207pp.
2014. Special Issue: Twenty Years of South African Democracy. Guest Editors: Tiffany Willoughby-Herard and Abebe Zegeye. African Identities 12 (3-4): 225-392.
2013. Special Issue: Cedric J. Robinson: Radical Historiography, Black Ontology, and Freedom. Guest Editors: H.L.T. Quan and Tiffany Willoughby-Herard. African Identities 11(2): 109-245.
SELECTED JOURNAL ARTICLES & BOOK CHAPTERS (refereed)

2023. “The Spiritual Journey to Becoming a History-Keeper of South African Liberation Movements,” Co-Authored with Martin Boston, Third World Thematics: A TWQ Journal

2023. “Political Education in a Food Pantry: Child Perspectives on the Liturgy and Agape of Rev. Mangedwa Nyathi in Detroit.” Third World Thematics: A TWQ Journal https://doi.org/10.1080/23802014.2023.2211963

2023. “Fatima Meer’s Father: Storytelling-History, Racialized Men of Color and Feminism, and Overcoming the Precarity of Black-Asian Solidarity.” Globalizing Political Theory. Edited by Smita Rahman, Katherine A. Gordy, and Shirin S. Deylami. London: Routledge Taylor and Francis, 151-158. [Pre-Orders Available for shipping December 2, 2022].

2023. Foreword. Beyond racial capitalism: Cooperatives in the African diaspora, edited by Caroline Shenaz Hossein, Sharon Wright Austin and Kevin Edmonds London: Oxford University Press, pp. vi-xii.

2022. “‘Part Typewriter, Part Divination’: A Black Feminist Approach to Black Digital Archives and Preserving the Papers of the Campaign to Bring Mumia Home,” Journal of Intersectionality 5(1): 53-69. Special Issue by Nommo Collective. Co-Authored with Jessica Millward, LaShonda Carter, Krystal Tribbett, and Ella Turenne.

2022. "M/othering Myself: Confessing Care Being." Palimpsest: A Journal on Women, Gender, and the Black International 11, no. 1 (2022): 141-169.

2021. “National Conference of Black Political Scientists Presidential Address, March 13, 2021,” National Review of Black Politics, Vol.2, Number2, pp.81–94,

2021. "Preface ‘Unhushable Wit’: Pedagogy, Laughter, and Joy in the Classrooms of Cedric J. Robinson,” Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition, Revised and Updated Third Edition, by Damien Sojoyner and Tiffany Willoughby-Herard, reprint Penguin Edition. xxxv-xlvi.

2021. “Post-Script: Movements After 1994 Respond to Exclusivity, Extravagance, and Hierarchy or Flesh of the City: From Section Ten Policies to Fees Must Fall.” In Sasinda and Siselapha (Still Here): Black Feminist Approaches to Cultural Studies in South Africa’s Twenty Five Years Since 1994. Editors: Derilene (Dee) Marco, Tiffany Willoughby-Herard, and Abebe Zegeye. Trenton: Africa World Press. pp. 225-231.

2021. “This Country is Not My Body: Caricatures, Shreds, Ukusinda (Still Here). The Cultural Post-Apartheid: Twenty Years of South African Democracy,” Co-Authored with Derilene (Dee) Marco and Abebe Zegeye. In Sasinda and Siselapha (Still Here): Black Feminist Approaches to Cultural Studies in South Africa’s Twenty Five Years Since 1994. Editors: Derilene (Dee) Marco, Tiffany Willoughby-Herard, and Abebe Zegeye. Trenton: Africa World Press, pp. 1-19.

2020. "Preface ‘Unhushable Wit’: Pedagogy, Laughter, and Joy in the Classrooms of Cedric J. Robinson,” Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition, Revised and Updated Third Edition, by Damien Sojoyner and Tiffany Willoughby-Herard, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina. pp xxxv-xlvi.

2020. “Conferencing is Not a Luxury and Neither is the Scholarly Life of Our Future Colleagues." PS: Political Science and Politics 53(1): 146-148. Spotlight Section Edited by Nadia Brown and Nazita Lajevardi. January.

2020 “Poetic Labors and Challenging Political Science: An Epistolary Poem,” Me Too Political Science, Reprint edition, edited by Nadia Brown (Routledge, 2020), 224-235.

2019. "Poetic Labors and Challenging Political Science: An Epistolary Poem, Journal of Women, Politics, and Policy" 40(1) 1-8. DOI: 10.1080/1554477X.2019.1565465. https://doi.org/10.1080/1554477X.2019.1565465

2019. "The Whatever That Survived: Thinking Racialized Immigration Through Blackness and the Afterlife of Slavery" in Relational Formations of Race: Theory, Method and Practice. Natalia Molina, Daniel Martinez HoSang, and Ramón Gutiérrez, (Eds.) Berkeley: University of California Press. 145-162.

2018. Queer of Color Space-making in and Beyond the Academic Industrial Complex. Co-Authored with Jin Haritarworn, Jillian Hernandez, Paola Bacchetta, Fatima El-Tayeb, Joao Gabriell, Vanessa Thompson, Critical Ethnic Studies Association 4(1): 44-63. 14.3% of the labor.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/10.5749/jcritethnstud.4.1.0044.pdf?refreqid=excelsior%3A994f5a1fa34c197edb3483ca28750dca

2018. Notes from the Kitchen, the Crossroads, and Everywhere Else, too: Ruptures of Thought, Word, and Deed from the “Arbiters of Blackness Itself.” Co-Authored with M. Shadee Malaklou. Theory and Event 21 (1): 2-67.

2018. What Kind of Mother is She? From Margaret Garner to Rosa Lee Ingram to the Murder of Korryn Gaines. Co-Authored with LaShonda Carter. Theory and Event 21 (1): 88-105.

2018. (Political) Anesthesia or (Political) Memory: The Combahee River Collective and the Death of Black Women in Custody. Theory and Event 21 (1): 259-281.

2018. On the need to claim (physical) QTBIPoC spaces, Contemptorary (October 24) Co-authored with the gens QTBPOC collective*, Paola Bacchetta, Fatima El-Tayeb, Jin Haritaworn, Jillian Hernandez, SA Smythe, Vanessa Thompson.
http://contemptorary.org/qtbipocs_spaces/

2017. “Intellectual Genealogies” Entry of the Combahee River Collective Statement: A 40th Anniversary Retrospective, edited by Kristen A. Kolenz, Krista L. Benson, and Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, Frontiers: A Journal of Womens Studies 38(3): 164-189.

2016. “What A Black Feminist Politic Can Contribute toward Diversifying and Addressing Discrimination in Political Science.” Duchess Harris, in collaboration with Tiffany Willoughby Herard, Julia Jordan-Zachery, Sharon Austin, Keisha Blain, and Angela K. Lewis. White Paper for white paper for the 2016 American Political Science Association Short Course,“Coalition Building to Advance Diverse Leadership and Address Discrimination in Political Science.”
https://genderingpoliticalscience.weebly.com/uploads/2/3/5/8/23588454/harris_duchess.pdf

2015. The Secret Eye: Black Women in Politics and Publishing. Broadening the Contours in the Study of Black Politics: Political Development and Black Women. Edited by Michael Mitchell and David Covin. National Political Science Review 17(1): 75-82.
2014. Fighting for an intervention in history in the face of dreams deferred in the making: Twenty years of South African democracy." African Identities 12(3-4): 225-235.
2014. "Black Rainbows: Militant White Women Writers, Post-Racial Discourse, and the Stakes of Race, Class, and Gender in South Africa." Journal of Contemporary Thought 39: 197-218.
2014. "Mammy No More/ Mammy Forever: The Stakes and Costs of Teaching Our Colleagues." The Truly Diverse Faculty. Eds. Stephanie Fryberg and Ernesto Martinez. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 157-192.
2014. "More expendable than slaves? Racial Justice and the After-Life of Slavery." Politics, Groups, and Identities 2(3): 506-521.
2013. "Black Ontology, Radical Scholarship, and Freedom,” Co-Authored with H.L.T. Quan. African Identities 11(2): 109-116.
2013. "‘Revolt at the Source’: The Black Radical Tradition in the Social Documentary Photography of Omar Badsha and Nadine Hutton.” African Identities 11(2): 200-226.

Revolt at the Source
PUBLIC SCHOLARSHIP & CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

2021. AICRE + Philosophy—Picking up a Dropped Stitch in the Humanities Miami Institute Inaugural Forums, March 10, https://www.miamisocialsciences.org/

2020. “The Police Tackled Shikera C.” Praxis Center: Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership Blog. October 28. http://www.kzoo.edu/praxis/police-tackled-shikera/

2016. “What A Black Feminist Politic Can Contribute toward Diversifying and Addressing Discrimination in Political Science.” Duchess Harris, in collaboration with Tiffany Willoughby Herard, Julia Jordan-Zachery, Sharon Austin, Keisha Blain, and Angela K. Lewis. White Paper for white paper for the 2016 American Political Science Association Short Course, “Coalition Building to Advance Diverse Leadership and Address Discrimination in Political Science.”
https://genderingpoliticalscience.weebly.com/uploads/2/3/5/8/23588454/harris_duchess.pdf

2016. "La Casa de la Raza Stands for Hope: Santa Barbara Haven for Minority Populations with Ideas," Santa Barbara Independent, March 9.
http://www.independent.com/news/2016/mar/12/la-casa-de-la-raza-stands- hope/

2013. "The Fetish of Development." co-author with Eileen Boris. eScholarship. University of California, Santa Barbara and Feminist Studies Department.



BOOK REVIEWS

2021. "‘He Burned himself Up for Us’ Or The Wisdom of Selflessness, Reading Rhonda Magee’s The Inner Work of Racial Justice," Journal of Women, Politics & Policy 42(1): 1-7. DOI: 10.1080/1554477X.2021.1870085
https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/UGS2EMRSDQSNGY8WID2N/full?target=10.1080/1554477X.2021.187008.


2019. Ugly Goes to the Bone. Review of Sitting Pretty: White Afrikaans Women in Postapartheid South Africa (University of Kwa Zulu Natal 2018) by Christi van der Westhuizen in International Journal fr Critical Diversity Studies.

2018. “Read Everything, Son, Everything You Can Get Your Hands On”: James Baldwin’s Little Man, Little Man: A Story of Childhood” a new edition published by Duke University Press. Los Angeles Review of Books. September 30.
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/read-everything-son-everything-you-can-get-your-hands-on-james-baldwins-little-man-little-man-a-story-of-childhood/

2018. “Don’t Cry for Me, Organize!”—Political Organizing, The Strength of Communities, Or The Limits of Predictive Philanthropy” Forum Review of Money Well Spent: A Strategic Plan for Smart Philanthropy, 2nd by Paul Brest and Hal Harvey. HistPhil.com edited by Maribel Morey, October 3.
https://histphil.org/2018/10/03/dont-cry-for-me-organize-political-organizing-the-strength-of-communities-or-the-limits-of-predictive-philanthropy/

2016. Book Review Forum: Essay 1 on Zenzele Isoke's Urban Black Women and the Politics of Resistance (2013). Broadening the Contours in the Study of Black Politics: Citizenship and Popular Culture. Edited by Michael Mitchell and David Covin. National Political Science Review 17(2): 141-143.

CREATIVE WRITING

2021. “For Despair (or: You Don’t Even Know How to Spell Black Excellence).” (Reprinted and Revised) Wild Imperfections. Edited by Natalia Molebatsi. Century City and Cape Town: Penguin Random House South Africa, 156-160.

2021. “Poem for LB.” Wild Imperfections. Edited by Natalia Molebatsi. Century City and Cape Town: Penguin Random House South Africa. 161.

2020. “Stop Saving the World and Go Sit Down Somewhere,” Poem, UC Irvine Sustainability Resource Center Social Media Campaign, August 19.
Grants
PARTIAL LIST—EXTRAMURAL AND INTRAMURAL
Mellon Foundation-Future of Minority Studies Project, Summer Institute Fellow, 23 July- 3 August 2007 FUNDED ” Intersecting Identities and Social Justice: Realist Explorations,” Cornell University, Convened by Satya Mohanty and Linda Martín Alcoff, Intensive theory seminar for faculty and advanced graduate students on post-positivist realism, intersectionality, disability studies, immigration, citizenship and eugenics, racialization and exclusion in the workforce, racialization and criminal justice system, and identity.
$4,000, Institute for Community and Civic Engagement, Fall 2007-Spring 2009, FUNDED Political Philosophy and Civic Engagement: Teaching Democratic Practice, Researching the Black Panther Party, Multi-Campus project conducting oral histories of surviving lesser-known Black Panther Party members, utilizing community based research methods and research collective pedagogy with students at a four year and two year institution. Focus is on evaluating the relationship between political philosophy and civic engagement and social movement participation. Developing pedagogical and informal education skills for students interested in community work and community college teaching.
$4,000 California Campus Compact—Carnegie Faculty Fellowship, 2007-2009, FUNDED, DECLINED Political Philosophy and Civic Engagement: Teaching Democratic Practice.
$1500, Recipient, Humanities Dean Research and Travel Committee Award, June-July 2009, Conference Presentation and Research Trip to South Africa Summer 2009.
$1000, Recipient, ADVANCE Program Dependent Care Travel Awards Program, Spring 10.
$3695, Recipient, UC Irvine Academic Senate Council on Research, Computing and Libraries, Special Research Grant-2009-2010, Visual Culture and White Poverty: Manuscript Chapter, Travel to South Africa September 2010.
$1000, Recipient, ADVANCE Program Dependent Care Travel Awards Program, Summer 10.
Professional Societies
National Conference of Black Political Scientists
American Studies Association
African Studies Association
American Political Science Association
Critical Ethnic Studies Association
Other Experience
Visiting Faculty Researcher
Institute for Gender Studies, University of South Africa 2018—2018
Graduate Programs
Political Science