Who is
Dr. Aria S. Halliday?
Aria S. Halliday, Ph.D. is Assistant Professor in the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies and program in African American and Africana Studies at the University of Kentucky. Dr. Halliday specializes in the study of cultural constructions of black girlhood and womanhood in material, visual, and digital culture in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. She engages broad interdisciplinary interests in girlhood, Black feminism, and performance in Black popular culture in the United States and the Caribbean. Her research is featured in Cultural Studies, Departures in Critical Qualitative Research, Girlhood Studies, Palimpsest, and SOULS.
She is the author of Buy Black: How Black Women Transformed US Pop Culture (University of Illinois Press, forthcoming) and editor of The Black Girlhood Studies Collection (Women’s Press, 2019). With Ashley Payne, she was co-editor of "Twenty-First Century B.I.T.C.H. Frameworks: Hip Hop Feminism Comes of Age," a special issue in the Journal of Hip Hop Studies (2020). She is a Woodrow Wilson Career Enhancement Fellow (2020-2021) and co-director of the Digital Black Girls project, a digital humanities database featuring the representations of Black girls in popular culture with Ashleigh Greene Wade. She is on the editorial board of the Girlhood Studies journal and has served as the co-chair of the Girls’ and Girls Studies Caucus at the National Women’s Studies Association since 2016.
Dr. Halliday has been a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated since 2011 as well as the American Studies Association and the National Women's Studies Association since 2014. She is a native English speaker, with conversational expertise of Spanish and Arabic.
She is the author of Buy Black: How Black Women Transformed US Pop Culture (University of Illinois Press, forthcoming) and editor of The Black Girlhood Studies Collection (Women’s Press, 2019). With Ashley Payne, she was co-editor of "Twenty-First Century B.I.T.C.H. Frameworks: Hip Hop Feminism Comes of Age," a special issue in the Journal of Hip Hop Studies (2020). She is a Woodrow Wilson Career Enhancement Fellow (2020-2021) and co-director of the Digital Black Girls project, a digital humanities database featuring the representations of Black girls in popular culture with Ashleigh Greene Wade. She is on the editorial board of the Girlhood Studies journal and has served as the co-chair of the Girls’ and Girls Studies Caucus at the National Women’s Studies Association since 2016.
Dr. Halliday has been a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated since 2011 as well as the American Studies Association and the National Women's Studies Association since 2014. She is a native English speaker, with conversational expertise of Spanish and Arabic.
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