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Jamee Pritchard

  • Fellow, African & African Diaspora Studies

Biographical Sketch

Jamee Pritchard is a doctoral candidate in African and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Her educational and professional background is in library and information science (MLIS, 2017) and public history (MA, 2020), focusing on the research, organization, and curation of archives and special collections that center the histories and cultures of women and girls from Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) communities. Other research interests include Black women’s writing and literary activism and Black readerships of popular romance and speculative fictions. Ms. Pritchard is currently working on her dissertation project that examines Black girls’ engagement with speculative fiction (e.g. science fiction, fantasy, and horror novels) and considers the potential of Black women’s speculative fiction storytelling as an alternative archive for the study of Black girlhood.

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