Dr. Tiana U Wilson is an Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at Pitt. 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,” offers the first comprehensive study of the largest Black-led multiracial feminist group of the 1970s.
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.