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Nikol G. Alexander-Floyd
Occupation	Associate Professor of Women and Gender Studies at Rutgers University in New Brunswick
Education	B.A., 1992 at Southern University, Baton Rouge J.D., 1995 at University of Texas at Austin M.S., 1998 and Ph.D., 1999 at Rutgers Universityin New Brunswick
Website
http://nikolalexanderfloyd.com/index.html

Education

Nikol G. Alexander-Flyod has a degree in law and political science. She received his Bachelor of Arts in 1992 at Southern University in Baton Rouge, his Juris Doctorate in 1995 at the University of Texas at Austin and his Master of Political Science in 1998 and his doctorate in 1999 at Rutgers University in New Brunswick..

Career path

After his graduation from Rutgers University, she became an assistant professor of Women's Studies at Virginia Tech in the department of Interdisciplinary Studies in 2001. Her research during that time focused primarily on the gender politics of black nationalism. She has been a featured speaker at public meetings and debates at various colleges and universities, including Princeton University. She teaches courses on black feminist theory ., black women's political activism, race, gender, media, and law. She is a strong advocate for minorities and especially women of color and has co-funded the Association for the Study of Black Women in Politics Nikol has publicly commented on important legal cases such as Hopwood v. Texas, which has led her to be an interview on The Oprah Show and National Public Radio. She has also been co-chair of the Annual Meeting of the National Association for Women's Studies, Chair of the Committee of the American Political Science Association on the Status of Women, and a member of the Council of Academic Advisors to the Black Congress Foundation Caucus. Her articles have been included in several magazines such as The International Journal of African Studies, Frontiers: A Journal of Women’s Studies, Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism, Politics & Gender, PS: Political Science & Politics and Signs.

Activism

Nikol works for minority communities and women of color, who face additional difficulties due to the intersection of discrimination against them. In his Association for the Study of Black Women in Politics, he develops gender studies and black women and gives visibility to racialized women in their profession. Throughout his career in political science, he has questioned many of the ideas considered progressive in the United States. One of his aims in his writings is that the gender perspective is not neglected in the new progressive theories. It promotes a comparative feminist praxis in a globalized framework and under a system that continues to oppress the majority of the population. In her book Gender, Race and Nationalism in Contemporary Black Politics, she analyzes the need to carry out a gender study that somehow locates the role that women have had in the formation of both white nationalism and the liberation movements. black. Reflect on the impossibility of consolidating democratic and civil values ​​in a racist and masculinized United States.

Publications

Books

• 2007.Alexander-Floyd, Nikol G. Gender, Race, & Nationalism in Contemporary Black Politics. New York: Palgrave Macmillan

Chapters in books

• 1997.Alexander, Nikol G. and Drucilla Cornell. “Dismissed or Banished?: A Testament to the Reasonableness of the Simpson Jury.” In Birth Of A Nation’ Hood: Gaze, Script, And Spectacle In The O.J. Simpson Case, edited by Toni Morrison and Claudia Lacour, 57-96. New York: Pantheon Books
• 2004.Alexander-Floyd, Nikol G. “Making (Inter)Disciplinary Trouble: Africana Studies in White Academe.” In An Introduction to Interdisciplinary Studies, edited by Michael Herndon, 40-52. Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company.
• 2004.Alexander-Floyd, Nikol G. “Interdisciplinarity, Black Politics, and the Million Man March: A Case Study.” In An Introduction to Interdisciplinary Studies, edited by Michael Herndon, 90-110. Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company.

Publications in journals

• 2003.Alexander-Floyd, Nikol G. “‘We Shall Have Our Manhood’: Black Macho, Black Nationalism, and the Million Man March.” Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism 3, no. 2 (2003): 171-203.

• 2003.Alexander-Floyd, Nikol G. “Theorizing Race and Gender in Black Studies: Reflections on Recent Examinations of Black Political Leadership.” International Journal of Africana Studies 9, no. 2 (2003): 57-74.

• 2006.Alexander-Floyd, Nikol G. and Evelyn Simien. “Re-visiting ‘What’s In a Name?’: Exploring the Contours of Africana Womanist Thought,” Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies 27, no. 1 (2006): 67-89.

• 2008.Alexander-Floyd, Nikol G. “Critical Race Pedagogy: Teaching About Race and Racism Through Legal Learning Strategies,” PS: Political Science and Politics, (January 2008): 183-88 .

• 2008.Alexander-Floyd, Nikol G. “Framing Condi(licious): Condoleezza Rice and the Storyline of Closeness in U.S. National Community Formation,” Politics & Gender 4 (2008): 427-49 .

• 2008.Alexander-Floyd, Nikol G. "Written, published . . . cross-indexed, and footnoted": Producing Black Female Ph.D.s and Black Women's and Gender Studies Scholarship in Political Science,” PS: Political Science and Politics, 41, no. 4 (2008): 819-29 .

• 2009. Reprinted in Stanlie M. James, Frances Smith Foster and Beverly Guy-Sheftall, eds. Still Brave: The Evolution of Black Women’s Studies, New York: Free Press, 2009, 92-114 .

• 2010.Alexander-Floyd, Nikol G. “Critical Race Black Feminism: A Jurisprudence of Resistance and the Transformation of the Academy.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 35, no. 4 (2010): 810-20 .

• 2014.Alexander-Floyd, Nikol G. “Disappearing Acts: Reclaiming Intersectionality in the Social Sciences in a Post-Black Feminist Era.” Feminist Formations 24, no. 1 (2012): 1-25 .