Jeanelle Hope, Ph.D.
Director & Associate Professor of African American Studies
Contact Information
Director & Associate Professor of African American Studies
Office: 316 G.R. Woolfolk Social & Political Science Building
Phone: (936) 261-3202
Email: jkhope@pvamu.edu
Teaching/Research Area of Interest
- Post-WWII African American history
- Blacks in the West
- Black Political Thought
- Black Antifascism
- Black-Asian American relations, radicalism, and solidarity
- Black Art & Cultural Production
- Black Girlhood Studies
- Black Feminism
- Black Queer Theory
Education
- Ph.D. in Cultural Studies, University of California (Davis)
- M.A. in Pan African Studies, Syracuse University (Certificate of Advanced Study in Women & Gender Studies)
- B.A. in History & Africana Studies, California State University (Long Beach)
- A.A. in African American Studies, Contra Costa College
Selection of Courses Taught
- AFAM 1301: Race, Class & Gender in America
- History 4371: African American History (-1876)
Selected Research Activities
- Hope, Jeanelle K. & Mullen, Bill. The Black Antifascist Tradition (under contract with Haymarket)
- Hope, Jeanelle K. “Protesting on Screen: Beyond the Politics of Representation and Protest Films in the Era of Black Lives Matter” (forthcoming with Black Camera, winter 2022)
- Hope, Jeanelle K. “An Ode to Black British Girls: Black British Feminism, Black Girl Surrealism, and Micahela Coel’s Chewing Gum” VIEW Journal of European Television History and Culture 10 no. 20 (Winter 2021): 34-47
- Hope, Jeanelle K. & Watson, Vajra. “Hood Civics: Intergenerational Healing and the Quest for Educational Justice for/with Black Girl Artivists.” In Black Girl Civics: Expanding and Navigating the Boundaries of Civic Engagement, edited by Ginnie Logan and Janiece Mackey: Information Age Press, 2020.
- Hope, Jeanelle K. “This Tree Needs Water!: A Case Study on the Radical Potential of Afro Asian Solidarity in the Era of Black Lives Matter” Amerasia Studies 58, no 3 (Fall 2019): 59-87.
- Hope, Jeanelle K. “I’m an Artist and I’m Sensitive About My City: Black Women Artivists Confronting Resegregation in Sacramento.” American Studies 58 no. 3 (Fall 2019): 59-87.
- Hope, Jeanelle K. “Poetic Justice: Bay Area Afro-Asian Women’s Activism Through Verse” In Freedom’s Racial Frontier: African Americans in the Twentieth-Century West, edited by Herbert Ruffin and Dwayne Mack, 128-145. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2018.