Please join the Center for Gender and Sexuality for our next session of Behind the Publication, a behind-the-scenes workshop series on faculty research in gender and sexuality.

 The series continues with Dr. Robyn Spencer-Antoine, Associate Professor of History and African American Studies. Prof. Spencer-Antoine’s first book The Revolution Has Come: Black Power, Gender and the Black Panther Party in Oakland analyzed the organizational evolution of one of the leading Black Power organizations with a focus on gender, state repression and community organizing. It was the first book written about the Black Panthers. This talk – Finding and Losing the Self in Black Panther History – will share her journey as a researcher finding voice, navigating unprocessed archives, conducting dozens of oral interviews, and confronting silences in a behind-the-scenes look at Black Feminist epistemologies in action.

About the series: The central goal of this series is to offer graduate and undergraduate students a series of informal workshops where faculty encourage and demystify research by sharing their own experiences. We invite WSU faculty members to share a little about the genesis of their current or recent research. We ask them to discuss the joys and frustrations of the project; to elaborate on the decisions around the scope of the work; to assess methodological questions; to discuss writing practices; to highlight the importance of colleagues, librarians, friends, and other interlocutors more generally for their work; and to offer tips and strategies to help students through their own projects.