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POSITIONS
Marie Rich Endowed Professor, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Kentucky, 2025-
Associate Professor, Department of Gender and Women’s Studies and Program in African American and Africana Studies, University of Kentucky, 2023-present
Director, Graduate Studies, Fall 2024
Donald D. Harrington Faculty Fellow, University of Texas at Austin, 2022-2023
Host Department: Center for Women’s and Gender Studies
Assistant Professor, Department of Gender and Women’s Studies and Program in African American and Africana Studies, University of Kentucky, 2020-2023
Assistant Professor, Department of Women’s and Gender Studies, University of New Hampshire, 2017-2020
EDUCATION
PhD, American Studies, Purdue University.
Exam Areas: Black visual culture, Black feminist theories, Black girlhood studies
MA, American Studies, Purdue University.
Graduate Certificate: Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies
BA, Africana Studies (Center of Interdisciplinary Studies), Davidson College.
RESEARCH
PUBLICATIONS
Books
(Forthcoming). Black Girls and How We Fail Them. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. February 2025.
(2022). Buy Black: How Black Women Transformed US Popular Culture. Champaign: University of Illinois Press.
Edited Books & Special Issues
(2024). Aria S. Halliday and Ashleigh Greene Wade. “Remembering Blackly.” Black Nostalgia and Black Diaspora as Cultural Production (Special Issue). Cultural Studies 38(3). https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2023.2261951
(2020). Aria S. Halliday and Ashley N. Payne, eds. “21st Century B.I.T.C.H. Frameworks: Hip Hop Feminism Comes of Age (Special Issue). Journal of Hip Hop Studies 7(1).
(2019). Editor. The Black Girlhood Studies Collection. Women’s Press.
Collaborative Projects
(2024-). Aria S. Halliday and Rayvon Fouché, “The Black Woman’s Guide to Electric Vehicles.”
(2021-). Ashleigh Greene Wade and Aria S. Halliday. “Digital Black Girls.” DH Archival Project.
(2020-2022). Aria S. Halliday, Nikki Brown, and Kamahra Ewing. “Diasporic Black Childhoods.” Working Group, Commonwealth Institute for Black Studies.
Journal Articles & Book Chapters
(Forthcoming). Aria S. Halliday and Ann duCille. “We Might Be Able to Get By: A Feminist Conversation of the Academy, Community, and Compensation Across Generations.” Feminist Theory. Fall 2025.
(Forthcoming). “Diversity of Consumption: Mattel’s Collectible Black Bodies.” The Black Scholar 55(1): Spring 2025.
(2024). “For the Love of Black Girls: Building Black Girlhood Studies as a Lifejacket.” in The Routledge Companion to Girls’ Studies, ed. Sharon Mazzarella. New York: Routledge.
(2023). “Trauma and the Formation of Radical Black Girl Subjectivity in Nalo Hopkinson’s Midnight Robber.” Women, Gender, and Families of Color 11(1): 27-48. https://doi.org/10.5406/23260947.11.1.02
(2023). “Towards a Black Feminism for Black Girls.” in Bloomsbury Handbook of Theories in Childhood Studies, eds. Sarada Balagopalan, John Wall, and Karen Wells. New York: Bloomsbury Academic Publishing.
(2023). Ashley N. Payne and Aria S. Halliday. “From #HotGirlSummer to #HotNerdFall: Megan Thee Stallion, Ratchet-Respectability, and the Educational Identities of Black Girls/Women.” Gender & Education 35(6-7): 521-536.https://doi.org/10.1080/09540253.2023.2235382
(2022). Ruth Nicole Brown and Aria S. Halliday. “Mid-twerk & Mid-laugh.” in Investing in the Educational Success of Black Women and Girls, eds. Charlotte Jacobs and Venus Evans-Winters, pp. 39-56. Stylus Publishing.
(2020). Aria S. Halliday and Ashley N. Payne. “Savage and Savvy: Mapping Contemporary Hip Hop Feminism (Special Issue Introduction).” Journal of Hip Hop Studies 7(1): 8-18.
(2020). “Black Girls’ Feistiness as Everyday Resistance in Toni Cade Bambara's Gorilla, My Love.” Palimpsest: A Journal on Women, Gender, and the Black International 9(1): 50-64.
(2020). “Twerk Sumn!: Theorizing Black Girl Epistemology in the Body.” Cultural Studies 34(6): 874-891.
(2019). “Introduction.” in The Black Girlhood Studies Collection, ed. Aria S. Halliday, pp. 1-20. Women’s Press.
(2019). “Centering Black Women in the Black Chicago Renaissance: Katherine Williams Irvin, Olive Diggs, and Chicago Bee ‘New Negro Womanhood’,” in Against a Sharp White Background: Infrastructures of African American Print, eds. Brigitte Felder and Jonathan Senchyne, pp. 240-258. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.
(2018). “Miley, What’s Good?: Nicki Minaj’s Anaconda, Instagram Reproductions, and Viral Memetic Violence.” Girlhood Studies11(3): 67-83.
(2018). Aria S. Halliday and Nadia E. Brown. “The Power of Black Girl Magic Anthems: Nicki Minaj, Beyoncé, & ‘Feeling Myself’ as Political Empowerment.” SOULS: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society 20(2): 222-238.
(2017). “Envisioning Black Girl Futures: Nicki Minaj's Anaconda Feminism and Black Girl Sexuality.” Departures in Critical Qualitative Research 6(3): 65-77.
Book Reviews
(Forthcoming). Review of Rob Goldberg. Radical Play: Revolutionizing Children’s Toys in 1960s and 1970s America, Duke University Press, 2023. The American Historical Review. Spring 2025.
(2021). “For the Girls in the Place with Style and Grace: Excess as the Catalyst for Liberation.” Rev. of Jillian Hernandez, Aesthetics of Excess: The Art and Politics of Black and Latina Embodiment. Duke University Press, 2020; Savannah Shange, Progressive Dystopia: Abolition, Anthropology, and Race in the New San Francisco, Duke University Press, 2019; Rachel Valentina González, Quinceañera Style: Social Belonging and Latinx Consumer Identities, University of Texas Press, 2019. American Quarterly 73(4): 857-866.
(2018). Rev. of Uri McMillan. Embodied Avatars: Genealogies of Black Feminist Art and Performance. NYU Press, 2015. Journal of African American History 103(1-2): 258-260.
Online Writing and Popular Publications
Op-ed. “Our Culture Can Do Better than Recycling TV Shows and Movies Over and Over Again.” Lexington Herald Leader(January 26, 2024).
Op-ed. “This Holiday Season, Give Yourself the Gift of Boredom. You Might Be Surprised.” Lexington Herald Leader (December 19, 2023).
Op-ed. “Why is Women’s Pain Routinely Ignored in Our Medical Care System?” Lexington Herald Leader (September 15, 2023).
Op-ed. “How This New Era of Barbie Finally Made Me Want a Doll.” Lexington Herald Leader (July 27, 2023).
Lecture. “The Real Lessons of Fairytales.” TEDxConcord (February 22, 2022).
Article. “Spotlight on a Scholar: Aria S. Halliday, author of The Black Girlhood Studies Collection.” International Girls Studies Association Inaugural Newsletter Vol 1, Issue 1 (June 2020).
Article. “How Paule Marshall’s Writings Transformed Me.” The North Star (August 26, 2019).
Op-ed with Nadia E. Brown. “Making Black Women, Not Girls, Magic?” OZY (October 1, 2018).
Interviews
Stahl, Jay. “Taylor Swift hasn’t endorsed Trump or Harris. Why Do We Care who She Votes for?” USA Today. (September 5, 2024).
Maloy, Ashley Fetters. “The Mythical Mavis Beacon who Taught Typing to a Generation.” Washington Post. (August 31, 2024).
Mørk, Emilie Maarbjerg. “One of Kamala Harris’ Biggest Challenges is Called ‘Misogynior’.” Politiken. (July 24, 2024).
Humenyuk, Iryna. “Lizzo Is Quitting. Is It Our Fault?” Uptown Radio (Columbia University School of Journalism). (July 3, 2024).
Gilchrist, Kendra. “Women of Color Continue to Receive Backlash for Adaptation Roles.” The State News (June 14, 2024).
Hatchett, Caroline, “I Ate My Way Through America’s Bitch-Themed Restaurants and I Have Feelings.” Cosmopolitan (May 24, 2024).
LaMagdeleine, Izz Scott. “Michelle Obama Isn’t a Trans Woman. Here’s Why Some People Believe Otherwise.” Snopes (October 17, 2023).
Varela, Julio Ricardo and Fernanda Santos. “All the Other Barbies.” In The Thick: A Futuro Media Political Podcast (August 9, 2023).
Haile, Heven. “How Black Women Rappers Expanded who Barbie Could Be.” GQ (August 6, 2023).
Javaid, Maham. “It’s Rat Girl Summer. Grab A Snack.” Washington Post (August 6, 2023)
Stabley, Justin. “Barbie’s on the Big Screen. Here’s 6 Things to Know.” PBSNewsHour (July 21, 2023).
Sanders, Sam. “‘The Little Mermaid’ and the Black Princess Test.” Into It: A Vulture Podcast with Sam Sanders (May 23, 2023).
Marie Rich Endowed Professor, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Kentucky, 2025-
Associate Professor, Department of Gender and Women’s Studies and Program in African American and Africana Studies, University of Kentucky, 2023-present
Director, Graduate Studies, Fall 2024
Donald D. Harrington Faculty Fellow, University of Texas at Austin, 2022-2023
Host Department: Center for Women’s and Gender Studies
Assistant Professor, Department of Gender and Women’s Studies and Program in African American and Africana Studies, University of Kentucky, 2020-2023
Assistant Professor, Department of Women’s and Gender Studies, University of New Hampshire, 2017-2020
EDUCATION
PhD, American Studies, Purdue University.
Exam Areas: Black visual culture, Black feminist theories, Black girlhood studies
MA, American Studies, Purdue University.
Graduate Certificate: Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies
BA, Africana Studies (Center of Interdisciplinary Studies), Davidson College.
RESEARCH
PUBLICATIONS
Books
(Forthcoming). Black Girls and How We Fail Them. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. February 2025.
(2022). Buy Black: How Black Women Transformed US Popular Culture. Champaign: University of Illinois Press.
- Reviewed in Girlhood Studies August 2024
- Forbes, “A Conversation about Black Women, Representation and Pop Culture”
- Reviewed in The Journal of Popular Culture July 2023
- Reviewed in Choice April 2023
Edited Books & Special Issues
(2024). Aria S. Halliday and Ashleigh Greene Wade. “Remembering Blackly.” Black Nostalgia and Black Diaspora as Cultural Production (Special Issue). Cultural Studies 38(3). https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2023.2261951
(2020). Aria S. Halliday and Ashley N. Payne, eds. “21st Century B.I.T.C.H. Frameworks: Hip Hop Feminism Comes of Age (Special Issue). Journal of Hip Hop Studies 7(1).
(2019). Editor. The Black Girlhood Studies Collection. Women’s Press.
- Reviewed in Journal of African American History 107(3): Summer 2022
- Reviewed in Girlhood Studies 14(2): June 2021
- Amsterdam News, “Aria Halliday Publishes Important Books on Black Women & Girls”
Collaborative Projects
(2024-). Aria S. Halliday and Rayvon Fouché, “The Black Woman’s Guide to Electric Vehicles.”
- Pending NEH grant: $150,000
- Applied: NSF STS grant: $300,000
(2021-). Ashleigh Greene Wade and Aria S. Halliday. “Digital Black Girls.” DH Archival Project.
(2020-2022). Aria S. Halliday, Nikki Brown, and Kamahra Ewing. “Diasporic Black Childhoods.” Working Group, Commonwealth Institute for Black Studies.
Journal Articles & Book Chapters
(Forthcoming). Aria S. Halliday and Ann duCille. “We Might Be Able to Get By: A Feminist Conversation of the Academy, Community, and Compensation Across Generations.” Feminist Theory. Fall 2025.
(Forthcoming). “Diversity of Consumption: Mattel’s Collectible Black Bodies.” The Black Scholar 55(1): Spring 2025.
(2024). “For the Love of Black Girls: Building Black Girlhood Studies as a Lifejacket.” in The Routledge Companion to Girls’ Studies, ed. Sharon Mazzarella. New York: Routledge.
(2023). “Trauma and the Formation of Radical Black Girl Subjectivity in Nalo Hopkinson’s Midnight Robber.” Women, Gender, and Families of Color 11(1): 27-48. https://doi.org/10.5406/23260947.11.1.02
(2023). “Towards a Black Feminism for Black Girls.” in Bloomsbury Handbook of Theories in Childhood Studies, eds. Sarada Balagopalan, John Wall, and Karen Wells. New York: Bloomsbury Academic Publishing.
(2023). Ashley N. Payne and Aria S. Halliday. “From #HotGirlSummer to #HotNerdFall: Megan Thee Stallion, Ratchet-Respectability, and the Educational Identities of Black Girls/Women.” Gender & Education 35(6-7): 521-536.https://doi.org/10.1080/09540253.2023.2235382
(2022). Ruth Nicole Brown and Aria S. Halliday. “Mid-twerk & Mid-laugh.” in Investing in the Educational Success of Black Women and Girls, eds. Charlotte Jacobs and Venus Evans-Winters, pp. 39-56. Stylus Publishing.
(2020). Aria S. Halliday and Ashley N. Payne. “Savage and Savvy: Mapping Contemporary Hip Hop Feminism (Special Issue Introduction).” Journal of Hip Hop Studies 7(1): 8-18.
(2020). “Black Girls’ Feistiness as Everyday Resistance in Toni Cade Bambara's Gorilla, My Love.” Palimpsest: A Journal on Women, Gender, and the Black International 9(1): 50-64.
(2020). “Twerk Sumn!: Theorizing Black Girl Epistemology in the Body.” Cultural Studies 34(6): 874-891.
(2019). “Introduction.” in The Black Girlhood Studies Collection, ed. Aria S. Halliday, pp. 1-20. Women’s Press.
(2019). “Centering Black Women in the Black Chicago Renaissance: Katherine Williams Irvin, Olive Diggs, and Chicago Bee ‘New Negro Womanhood’,” in Against a Sharp White Background: Infrastructures of African American Print, eds. Brigitte Felder and Jonathan Senchyne, pp. 240-258. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.
(2018). “Miley, What’s Good?: Nicki Minaj’s Anaconda, Instagram Reproductions, and Viral Memetic Violence.” Girlhood Studies11(3): 67-83.
(2018). Aria S. Halliday and Nadia E. Brown. “The Power of Black Girl Magic Anthems: Nicki Minaj, Beyoncé, & ‘Feeling Myself’ as Political Empowerment.” SOULS: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society 20(2): 222-238.
(2017). “Envisioning Black Girl Futures: Nicki Minaj's Anaconda Feminism and Black Girl Sexuality.” Departures in Critical Qualitative Research 6(3): 65-77.
Book Reviews
(Forthcoming). Review of Rob Goldberg. Radical Play: Revolutionizing Children’s Toys in 1960s and 1970s America, Duke University Press, 2023. The American Historical Review. Spring 2025.
(2021). “For the Girls in the Place with Style and Grace: Excess as the Catalyst for Liberation.” Rev. of Jillian Hernandez, Aesthetics of Excess: The Art and Politics of Black and Latina Embodiment. Duke University Press, 2020; Savannah Shange, Progressive Dystopia: Abolition, Anthropology, and Race in the New San Francisco, Duke University Press, 2019; Rachel Valentina González, Quinceañera Style: Social Belonging and Latinx Consumer Identities, University of Texas Press, 2019. American Quarterly 73(4): 857-866.
(2018). Rev. of Uri McMillan. Embodied Avatars: Genealogies of Black Feminist Art and Performance. NYU Press, 2015. Journal of African American History 103(1-2): 258-260.
Online Writing and Popular Publications
Op-ed. “Our Culture Can Do Better than Recycling TV Shows and Movies Over and Over Again.” Lexington Herald Leader(January 26, 2024).
Op-ed. “This Holiday Season, Give Yourself the Gift of Boredom. You Might Be Surprised.” Lexington Herald Leader (December 19, 2023).
Op-ed. “Why is Women’s Pain Routinely Ignored in Our Medical Care System?” Lexington Herald Leader (September 15, 2023).
Op-ed. “How This New Era of Barbie Finally Made Me Want a Doll.” Lexington Herald Leader (July 27, 2023).
Lecture. “The Real Lessons of Fairytales.” TEDxConcord (February 22, 2022).
Article. “Spotlight on a Scholar: Aria S. Halliday, author of The Black Girlhood Studies Collection.” International Girls Studies Association Inaugural Newsletter Vol 1, Issue 1 (June 2020).
Article. “How Paule Marshall’s Writings Transformed Me.” The North Star (August 26, 2019).
Op-ed with Nadia E. Brown. “Making Black Women, Not Girls, Magic?” OZY (October 1, 2018).
Interviews
Stahl, Jay. “Taylor Swift hasn’t endorsed Trump or Harris. Why Do We Care who She Votes for?” USA Today. (September 5, 2024).
Maloy, Ashley Fetters. “The Mythical Mavis Beacon who Taught Typing to a Generation.” Washington Post. (August 31, 2024).
Mørk, Emilie Maarbjerg. “One of Kamala Harris’ Biggest Challenges is Called ‘Misogynior’.” Politiken. (July 24, 2024).
Humenyuk, Iryna. “Lizzo Is Quitting. Is It Our Fault?” Uptown Radio (Columbia University School of Journalism). (July 3, 2024).
Gilchrist, Kendra. “Women of Color Continue to Receive Backlash for Adaptation Roles.” The State News (June 14, 2024).
Hatchett, Caroline, “I Ate My Way Through America’s Bitch-Themed Restaurants and I Have Feelings.” Cosmopolitan (May 24, 2024).
LaMagdeleine, Izz Scott. “Michelle Obama Isn’t a Trans Woman. Here’s Why Some People Believe Otherwise.” Snopes (October 17, 2023).
Varela, Julio Ricardo and Fernanda Santos. “All the Other Barbies.” In The Thick: A Futuro Media Political Podcast (August 9, 2023).
Haile, Heven. “How Black Women Rappers Expanded who Barbie Could Be.” GQ (August 6, 2023).
Javaid, Maham. “It’s Rat Girl Summer. Grab A Snack.” Washington Post (August 6, 2023)
Stabley, Justin. “Barbie’s on the Big Screen. Here’s 6 Things to Know.” PBSNewsHour (July 21, 2023).
Sanders, Sam. “‘The Little Mermaid’ and the Black Princess Test.” Into It: A Vulture Podcast with Sam Sanders (May 23, 2023).
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