Vanessa Thompson
Assistant Professor Distinguished Professor in Black Studies and Social Justice
Black Studies; Graduate Program in Gender Studies
Chair of Partnerships and Organizing
Research interests: I am an interdisciplinary social scientist and my scholarship and teaching explore the relation between state violence, racism, and capitalism, as well as the various forms of abolitionist international resistance. Grounded in traditions of activist scholarship, anti-colonial theories, and black feminist methodologies, my work engages with black social movements in and beyond Europe, and with abolitionist politics as a form of internationalism. I collaborate with black and anti-racist movements in Europe as well as globally, that are engaged in abolitionist struggles and transformations.
Recent publications: I have published on the relation between state violence, racism and capitalism; black social movements in France and Europe more broadly; Fanonian thought; abolitionist struggles against policing and border violence; transnational abolition; reproductive justice and black feminism. I have been fortunate to collaborate with amazing scholars and activists throughout the past years and have co-edited several special issues and anthologies in the fields of black feminisms, reproductive justice and abolition. I am further a member of the editorial collective kitchen politics. You can find a full list of publications in my CV.
Student supervision: I am happy to receive inquiries about supervision within areas of my research interests and expertise. I am particularly interested in supporting and working with first-generation students as well as students from multi-marginalized groups.
Teaching interests: Black Studies, Abolition Studies, Critical Racism and Migration Studies, Black Feminism, Anti-colonial Theories and Methodologies, Activist Ethnographies
Courses taught: Black Studies and the Politics of Liberation. An Introduction; Abolition Feminism
Admirative Roles/Service Highlights: Chair of Partnerships and Organizing in the Black Studies Program, Chair of QUFA's Political Action and Communications Committee, Member of the Undergraduate Committee, Member of the Political Action and Outreach Committee