Tammy 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
- “Black Maternal Mortality: The New Child Welfare Issue in the U.S.” Youth Circulations: Tracing the Real and Imagined Circulations of Global Youth, March 22, 2021.