Tiana U. Wilson

Dr. Tiana U Wilson is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Africana Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. Her research and teaching interests include Black women’s internationalism, Black women’s intellectual history, Third World Feminism, social movements, and solidarity practices of the twentieth century. Her book project, “Revolution and Struggle: The Enduring Legacy of the Third World Women’s Alliance (TWWA), 1968–2010,” offers the first comprehensive study of the largest Black-led multiracial feminist group of the 1970s. Tracing TWWA members’ ideas, grassroots activism, and transnational networks, Dr. Wilson’s research restores the international roots of Black Feminism as theorized by African American women.

Professor Wilson’s academic and public writing has appeared in numerous venues, including the Journal of African American History, Women’s Studies Quarterly, Oxford Bibliographies in African American Studies, Not Even Past, Handbook of Texas Women, Perspectives on History, and the Washington Post’s Made By History. Her research has been supported by the American Council of Learned Societies, the Center for Engaged Scholarship, the Sallie Bingham Center, Smith College, the Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women and Politics, and others.

In the broader intellectual community, Dr. Wilson is the managing editor of Black Perspectives, the leading online platform for public scholarship on global Black thought, history, and culture established by the African American Intellectual History Society. Professor Wilson is on leave for the 2023–2024 academic year as she completes a postdoctoral fellowship in the African American Studies Department at Penn State University.