Tammy C. Owens
Assistant Professor
Office: Tisch Learning Center 329
Telephone: 518-580-5020
Email: towens1@skidmore.edu
Curriculum Vitae
Education:
- Ph.D. American Studies, University of Minnesota
- M.A. Women鈥檚 Studies, University of Alabama
- B.S.W. Social Work, University of Southern Mississippi
Courses:
- AM 101W Introduction to American Studies: Growing up in America
- AM 264 African American Experience
PUBLICATIONS
- 鈥淏lack Sites of Speculation: A Case for Theorizing Black Childhood as a Subject in Black Adult Narratives.鈥� Children and Youth as Subjects, Objects, Agents: Innovative Approaches to Research Across Space and Time, edited by D. Levison, M.J. Maynes, and F. Vavrus, Palgrave Macmillan, 2021, pp. 141-153.
- 鈥淔ugitive Literati: Black Girls鈥� Writing as a Tool of Kinship and Power at the Howard School.鈥� Women, Gender, and Families of Color, vol. 7, no. 1, Spring 2019, pp. 56-79.
- 鈥淢iss Celie鈥檚 Magic is Real.鈥� #BlackGirlMagic Offline: Black Girls and Women鈥檚 Quests for Self-definition in the 21st Century, edited by Julia S. Jordan-Zachery and Duchess Harris, University of Arizona Press, 2019, pp. 184-86.
- Tammy C. Owens, Durell Callier, Porshe Garner, and Jessica Robinson. 鈥淭owards an Interdisciplinary Field of Black Girlhood Studies.鈥� Departures in Critical Qualitative Research, vol. 6 no. 3, Fall 2017, pp. 116-132.
- Corinne T. Field, Tammy C. Owens, Marcia Chatelain, LaKisha Simmons, Abosede George, and Rhian Keyse. 鈥淭he History of Black Girlhood: Recent Innovations and Future Directions.鈥� Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth, vol. 9, no. 3, Fall 2016, pp. 383-401.
Public Scholarship