Paula Ioanide

Prof. Paula Ioanide's research focuses on political, economic, social and cultural practices that reproduce gendered racism in the post-civil rights era. She is particularly interested in socially shared configurations of feelings, fantasies, fears, desires and beliefs about race and sexuality--what she calls "affective structures"--that make exploitation, exclusion and elimination appear natural and necessary. Ioanide's research also focuses on legacies of social justice that generate forms of "ethical witnessing:" acts and epistemologies practiced by historically aggrieved communities to secure dignity, self-determination and freedom. She is currently working on completing her book titled, The Affective Structure of Whiteness: Gendered Racism and Ethical Witnessing in the Post-Civil Rights Era.

Prof. Ioanide teaches courses in comparative ethnic studies at the Center for the Study of Culture, Race & Ethnicity, including:

Introduction to Culture, Race & Ethnicity Concepts

Watching Race in American Media

Punishment, Prisons and Democracy

Race & Sexual Politics

Case Studies in Global Justice