Heather Caldwell

She is an educator and cultural historian who teaches in the fields of History, Black Studies, and Women’s Studies. Her professional and academic work is focused on unpacking and expanding the definition of resistance as discussed within the long struggle for African American freedom, particularly as it relates to African American women, culture, representation, and image construction. Her research interests include African American women’s history, media representations of African Americans and women, as well as twentieth-century Black radicalism.