Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
African American and African Studies
The Ohio State University
2019
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Faculty
Faculty
Sheneese Thompson ( She, Her)
Associate Professor
Department/Office
- Afro American Studies
School/College
- College of Arts & Sciences
Biography
Dr. Sheneese Thompson is Associate Professor of Afro-American Studies at Howard University. She earned a B.A in Afro-American Studies from Howard University, her M.A. in African American Studies from Boston University, and Ph.D. in African American and African Studies from The Ohio State University. She is currently a faculty fellow in Bowie State University’s Center for Research and Mentoring Black Male Students & Teachers and Editor in Chief of Freedom: A Journal of Research in Africana Studies. Her research areas of interest include Black Popular Culture, African American literature, Comparative Diaspora Studies, Afro-Atlantic Religion, and most notably Lucumi’s cultural impact in the United States. Her first book, Oshun, Lemonade, and Intertextuality: Afro-Atlantic Religion in Black Cultural Production is forthcoming in Spring 2025.
Education & Expertise
Education
Master of Arts (M.A.)
African American Studies
Boston University
2015
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)
Afro-American Studies
Howard University
2014
Academics
Academics
AFRO 185: Black Women in America
Research
Research
Funding
2023. CETL Adobe Faculty Development Grant (Bowie State University). This grant was written internally to the Bowie Foundation to award the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning with $140,000 over 2 academic years to provide Adobe-centered professional development to faculty. We were granted 100,000 on Monday April 10, 2023.
2021. Semester-Based Undergraduate Institute (Bowie State University). This grant awarded stipends to undergraduate participants in the HBCU Exchange research program with California State University San Marcos.
Accomplishments
Accomplishments
Bowie State University College of Arts & Sciences Outstanding Service Award, 2023
Publications and Presentations
Publications and Presentations
The Proliferation of Yorùbá Religion in the Atlantic in the Nineteenth Century
This paper seeks to analyze how Yorùbá religion and culture proliferated so widely throughout the Americas, though Yorùbá peoples comprised so little of the total percent of slaves imported to Trinidad, Brazil, and Cuba.
Bombing MOVE
What constitutes terrorism? How the Philadelphia police turned a neighborhood to ashes and the desecration of the remains of the dead that followed.
The Subaltern is Signifyin(g): Black Twitter as a Site of Resistance
Chapter 10: The Subaltern is Signifyin(g): Black Twitter as a Site of Resistance in Are You Entertained?: Black Popular Culture in the Twenty-First Century
In this collection of essays, interviews, visual art, and artist statements on topics ranging from music and dance to Black Twitter and the NBA's dress code, the contributors consider what culture and Blackness mean in the twenty-first century's digital consumer economy.
Harriet Tubman and Andrew Jackson on the Twenty-Dollar Bill
Harriet Tubman and Andrew Jackson on the Twenty-Dollar Bill: A Monstrous Intimacy
The controversy surrounding the announcement by the US Treasury, in April 2016, that the portraits of Harriet Tubman and Andrew Jackson will “share” the twenty-dollar bill-which the latter has embodied for almost a century-highlights a glaring incongruity: A formerly enslaved black woman and abolitionist leader is being placed in iconic proximity with an exemplary historical representative of the United States as a national experiment built on whiteness, slavery, and genocide. Our essay revolves around three basic questions: Why Tubman? Why Jackson? Why Now? The Treasury’s decision and its subsequent vicissitudes allow insights into the blurring of Barack Obama’s avowed “post-racialism,” which presided over the idea to redesign the currency, into the overt white supremacy and anti-black violence at the onset of the Trump regime, which has de facto frozen the implementation of the new bill.