Assistant Professor of Africana Studies
About the role
Allison Puglisi is an Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at Rutgers University-Newark.
Area of Expertise
African Diaspora Studies/Africana Studies, Urban and/or Environmental Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Operational Unit
Newark Department
Early Career Faculty Fellow
On This page
Publications & Speaking Engagements
“‘The Mississippi River is a Part of You’: Race, Rights, and the Riparian.” American Quarterly 77(2). 2025
Tenants’ Rights and Ecology. Housing and Environmental Justice Forum. Environmental History 30(3). 2025
Black Americans, Civil Rights, and the Roosevelts, 1932-1962,” Exhibition at Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum, American Historical Review 129(2). 2024
Media Appearances/Speaking Engagements
“‘The Mississippi River is A Part of You’: Race and Ecology on the Gulf Coast.” Invited talk, Science Center Faculty Seminar Series, Wellesley College, Nov. 20, 2024
“Black Environmental Thought in New Orleans.” Invited talk, Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program, Dartmouth College, Feb. 15, 2024
Organizations/Accomplishments/Upcoming Projects
Vassar College (Assistant Professor of History)
Brown University (Carol G. Lederer Postdoctoral Fellow)
Short-Term Fellowship, Scholar-in-Residence Program, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
Honorable Mention, Ralph Henry Gabriel Prize, American Studies Association
Convivencia Grant, Faculty of Color Working Group
Where We Reside: Black Environmental Thought in New Orleans
(book in progress)
Audre Lorde and the Political Uses of the (Feminist) Past
(article in progress)