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Skidmore College
American Studies Department

Tammy OwensTammy 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’s 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

  • “Black Sites of Speculation: A Case for Theorizing Black Childhood as a Subject in Black Adult Narratives.” 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. Link to download essay
  • “Fugitive Literati: Black Girls’ Writing as a Tool of Kinship and Power at the Howard School.” Women, Gender, and Families of Color, vol. 7, no. 1, Spring 2019, pp. 56-79.
  • “Miss Celie’s Magic is Real.” #BlackGirlMagic Offline: Black Girls and Women’s 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. “Towards an Interdisciplinary Field of Black Girlhood Studies.” 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. “The History of Black Girlhood: Recent Innovations and Future Directions.” Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth, vol. 9, no. 3, Fall 2016, pp. 383-401.

Public Scholarship