Zinga A. Fraser, PhD
Assistant Professor
Africana Studies Department and Women's & Gender Studies Program
Director of Shirley Chisholm Project
Director of the Shirley Chisholm Project
of Brooklyn Women’s Activism from 1945- Present
Women’s and Gender Studies
Brooklyn College, CUNY
1207 Ingersoll Hall
2900 Bedford Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11210
718-951-5476
Education
Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
Ph.D. in African American Studies with a Specialization in Race, Politics and Culture, 2014.
Dissertation: Catalysts for Change: A Comparative Study of Barbara Jordan and Shirley Chisholm.
Committee: Darlene Clark Hine (Chair), Martha Biondi and Farah J. Griffin. Richard Iton (deceased former chair) Robin D.G. Kelley (outside reader)
Columbia University, New York, New York
M.A. in African American Studies with a Specialization in Political Science and Policy, 2005
Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
B.A. in Political Science, and A.S. in African American Studies, 1998
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Academic and Research Experience
Director of the Shirley Chisholm Project of Brooklyn Women’s Activism from 1945- Present,
Brooklyn College of the City University of New York,
Endowed Post-doctoral Fellow Women and Gender Studies, Brooklyn College, 2013 - 2014
Vivian A. Ware Research Fellow Delta Research and Educational Foundation, 2009 - 2010
Publications
Fraser, Zinga. 2012. “The Politics of Trauma: Shirley Chisholm’s Political Life,”
In Spite of the Double Drawbacks: African American Women in History and Culture. Association of Black Women Historians. 75-87.
Fraser, Zinga. “Tribute to Manning Marable,” SOULS: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture and Society. Vol.13, No. 4, Fall 2011.
Fraser, Zinga A. 2009 - 2010. Associate Editor, PHILLIS: The Journal for Research on African American Women.
Fraser, Zinga A. 2011. “The Politics of Trauma: The Political Lives of Barbara Jordan and Shirley Chisholm.” PHILLIS: The Journal for Research on African American Women. 1:53-62.
Fraser, Zinga A. 2009.“Encyclopedia Entry,” Rep. Ronald Dellums and Rep.
Barbara Lee. Encyclopedia of African American History: from the Age of Segregation to the Twenty-first Century (1896-to Present), Gerald Horne, Ed. Oxford University Press.
Fraser, Zinga A. 2004. “Rethinking Black Studies.” SOULS: A Critical Journal of
Black Politics, Culture and Society. Vol. 6 Numbers 3-4 Summer/Fall 2004. 98-103.
Working Papers
Fraser, Zinga A. “A Road Less Traveled: Black Congressional Women’s Political Legacies.”
Fraser, Zinga A. “Call Me Madame President: Shirley Chisholm’s 1972 Presidential Campaign.”
2010 - present
2010 - present
Awards and Honors
American Political Science Association, Byran Jackson Dissertation Research
On Minority Politics Award, (in recognition of outstanding scholarship by a graduate student in the area of race and urban politics, August 2014.
Research Fellowships and Grants
Northwestern University, The Graduate School Research Grant, Spring 2012
Visiting Scholar, Columbia University, Institute for Research and African American Studies., 2011 - 2013
Northwestern University Conference Student Travel Grant., 2006 - 2010 Northwestern Student Leadership Award., 2009
Center for African American History, Conference Award for paper presentation,
Northwestern University, 2007
Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowship Honorable Mention, 2006
Zora Neale Hurston Award, Excellence Writing Award for Social Sciences for Master’s Thesis, Columbia University, 2005
Paul Robeson Fellow (awarded $12,500), Columbia University, 2004 - 2005
Presentations
Conference Presentations
Chair, Black Women’s Radical Activism and Politics, Association for the Study
of Life and History Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, 2015
Paper Presentation, “Blazing Trails: Shirley Chisholm's Political Legacy.” More
Than a First: Shirley Chisholm's Historical and Political Legacy, Association for the Study of African American Life and History Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, 2015
Paper Presentation, Association for the Study of African American Life and History, Pittsburgh, PA, 2012, “If I Can’t Be Free I Will Be A Mystery: Shirley Chisholm and Barbara Jordan’s Freedom Dreams.”
Chair, Columbia University, New York, NY, 2012, A New Vision of Black Freedom: Manning Marable Conference, “Models of Leadership.”
Paper Presentation, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 2012, A Beautiful Struggle: Transformative Black Studies in Shifting Political Landscapes, “Sister Outsider/Sister Insider: Shirley Chisholm, Barbara Jordan and Black Women’s Politics in the Post-Civil Rights Era.”
Paper Presentation, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY, 2012, Be A Catalyst for Change: Shirley Chisholm’s Lifelong Legacy Conference, “Shirley Chisholm's Freedom Dreams: Transforming Women's Politics.”
Chair, Association for the Study of African American Life and History,
Richmond, VA, 2011, “Living History: Manning Marable’s Intellectual and Political Legacy.”
Paper Presentation, Association for the Study of African American Life and History,
Richmond, VA, 2011, “Manning Marable’s Black Politics and the Quest for Transformational Black Leadership.”
Panelist, National Conference on Black Studies, New Orleans, LA, 2010, “Where is Black Studies?: Perspectives from Doctoral Students in the Field.”
Paper Presentation, Delta Research and Educational Foundation, Washington, DC, 2010, “Daughter’s of Ida: Ida B. Wells’ Legacy of Political Activism.”
Paper Presentation, City University of New York, Black Women and the Radical
Tradition Conference, New York, New York, 2009, “Shirley Chisholm: Redefining a Radical Political Ideology.”
Paper Presentation, National Conference on Black Studies, San Francisco, CA,
2007, “Re- Thinking Black Studies: Re-imagining Communities.”
Panelist, AYA African American Graduate Student Conference, 20th Year
Anniversary Conference Panel on the Future of Black Studies, Temple University, 2008
Paper Presentation, Conversation Lecture Series: Institute for Research and
African American Studies, Columbia University, New York, NY, 2005,
“Shirley Chisholm: Unbought and Unbossed: A Radical Political Ideology.”
Panelist, Columbia University, Blacks in the Ivy League Conference, New York, NY, 2004,
“Black Student Activism in Ivy League Institutions.”
Paper Presentation, Temple University Undergraduate Research Conference,
Philadelphia, PA, 1998, “Congressional Black Caucus: In search for Accountable Politics in Black Minority Districts.”
Teaching Experience
Adjunct Instructor, Brooklyn College, Department of African American Studies,
Political Science and Women’s and Gender Studies Program, 2014
Class: Race, Gender and the Politics of Inequality
Adjunct Instructor, Brooklyn College, Department of African American Studies,
and Women’s and Gender Studies Program , 2014,
Class: Introduction to Women’s Studies
Adjunct Instructor, Brooklyn College, Department of African American Studies
and Women’s and Gender Studies Program, 2013,
Class: Introduction to Women’s Studies
Adjunct Instructor, Brooklyn College, Department of African American Studies
and Women’s and Gender Studies Program, 2013,
Class: Feminist Theory
Guest Instructor, Columbia University, Department of African American Studies, 2011,
Class: Topics In the Black Experience: Black Women’s Intellectual History
Instructor, Northwestern University, Department of African American Studies, 2009.
Class: Black Women’s Politics
Teaching Assistant, Northwestern University, Department of African American Studies, 2009.
Class: Introduction to African American Social and Political Life.
Teaching Assistant, Northwestern University, Department of Political Science, 2008.
Class: African American Politics in the United States
Teaching Assistant, Northwestern University, Department of African American Studies, 2008.
Class: The Racial and Gender Politics of Hip Hop
Teaching Assistant, Northwestern University, Department of African American Studies, 2007.
Class: Introduction to African American Studies
Teaching Assistant, Northwestern University Department of Political Science, 2007
Class: American Government and Politics
Professional Experience
Employment
Policy Program Coordinator, Women’s Environment& Development Organization,
US Global Policy, NY
Consultant, Institute for Research and African American Studies, Columbia University, NY
Graduate Research Assistant, Institute for Research and African American Studies,
Columbia University, NY
Program Assistant/Associate, Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, NY, US Law & Security
Congressional Aide, Congressman Major R. Owens, Brooklyn, NY
Staff Assistant/Legislative Correspondent, Congressman Major R. Owens, Washington, DC.
Congressional Intern, Congressman Major R. Owens, Washington, DC
University Service
President, Black Graduate School Association, Northwestern University, 2008-2009
Graduate Student Representative, Graduate Leadership Council, Northwestern University,
2008-2009
Graduate Student Representative, CHESS- The Communications, Humanities,
Economics and Social and Behavioral Sciences Diversity Committee, Northwestern University,
2007-2008.
Graduate Student Council Representative, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Council,
Columbia University, 2003-2005
Executive Board member, Black and Latino Graduate School Association,
Columbia University, 2004-2005
President of Main Campus Program Board, Temple University, 1997-1998
Institutional Affiliations / Professional Memberships
American Political Science Association
Association for the Study of African American Life and History
Association of Black Women Historians
American Historical Association
Coordinating Council for Women in History
National Conference of Black Political Scientists
National Council of Black Studies
Organization of American Historians