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Melissa Harris-Perry Born Melissa Victoria Harris
1973 (age 37–38)[1]
Seattle, Washington, U.S.Residence New Orleans, Louisiana[1] Other names Melissa Harris-Lacewell Education Wake Forest University (B.A.)
Duke University (Ph.D.)Occupation professor, author Spouse Dennis Lacewell (1999–2005)
James Perry (2010–present)Children one daughter Website melissaharrisperry.com Melissa Victoria Harris-Perry (born October 2, 1973; formerly known as Melissa Harris-Lacewell)[1] is an American author and political commentator with a focus on African-American politics.
She is a professor of political science at Tulane University. Prior to that, she was an associate professor of politics and African-American studies at Princeton University from 2006 to 2010, and taught political science at the University of Chicago from 1999 to 2005.[2][3][4]
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Life and career
Melissa Victoria Harris was born in Seattle and grew up in the Virginia cities of Charlottesville and Chester, where she attended Thomas Dale High School. She was the youngest of five children of a black father, William M. Harris Sr., the dean of Afro-American affairs at the University of Virginia, and a white mother, Diana Gray, who taught at a community college and worked for nonprofits that helped poor communities.[3][4] “I’ve never thought of myself as biracial,” Harris-Perry says. “I’m black.”[5]
She received a bachelor of arts in English from Wake Forest University in 1994 and a Ph.D. in political science from Duke University in 1999. She also received an honoris causa doctorate from Meadville Lombard Theological School.[2][3]
Harris-Perry is the author of Barbershops, Bibles, and BET: Everyday Talk and Black Political Thought[6] on the methods African Americans use to develop political ideas through ordinary conversations in places like barbershops, churches, and popular culture. The work won the 2005 W.E.B. DuBois Book Award from the National Conference of Black Political Scientists and the 2005 Best Book Award from the Race and Ethnic Politics Section of the American Political Science Association. Her interests include the study of African-American political thought, black religious ideas and practice, and social and clinical psychology. Harris-Perry is a member of Delta Sigma Theta sorority.
Her writings have been published in The Chicago Tribune, The Los Angeles Times, Crain's Chicago Business, and Newsday. She regularly provides commentary for NBC News and MSNBC and has contributed to other television and print sources. She was a guest host on The Rachel Maddow Show from July 26 to July 29, 2011, and again on August 30 and August 31, 2011. Harris-Perry has a regular print column for The Nation, Sister Citizen.[7]
She was married to Dennis Lacewell from 1999 to 2005, with whom she has a daughter.[5][8] She currently lives in New Orleans and is married to James Perry,[2] who was a 2010 candidate for mayor in New Orleans.[4]
Bibliography
- Harris-Lacewell, Melissa Victoria (2004). Barbershops, Bibles, and BET: Everyday Talk and Black Political Thought (First ed.). Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-11405-7.
- Harris-Perry, Melissa V. (2011). Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0300165418.
References
- ^ a b c Dougherty, Conor (January 10, 2011). "South Draws U.S. Blacks: Shift by African-Americans to Faster-Growing States Reflects a Broader Trend". The Wall Street Journal. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704055204576068412135002514.html. Retrieved June 19, 2011. "Melissa Harris-Perry, 37 years old"
- ^ a b c "About Melissa Harris-Perry". MelissaHarrisPerry.com. 2011. http://www.melissaharrisperry.com/about.html. Retrieved April 8, 2011.
- ^ a b c Levin, Anne (October 10, 2007). "From House to Home". U.S. 1 Newspaper. http://princetoninfo.com/index.php?option=com_us1more&Itemid=6&key=10-10-2007_c_01. Retrieved June 19, 2011.
- ^ a b c Williams, Michael Paul (February 6, 2011). "Chesterfield native, now MSNBC commentator, speaking at VCU". Richmond Times-Dispatch. http://www2.timesdispatch.com/news/2011/feb/06/tdmet02-chesterfield-native-now-msnbc-commentator--ar-823398/. Retrieved June 19, 2011.
- ^ a b "Melissa Harris-Lacewell". NNDB. 2011. http://www.nndb.com/people/726/000207105/. Retrieved April 8, 2011.
- ^ Gloria Steinem and Melissa Harris-Lacewell (January 14, 2008) (video/audio/transcript). Race and Gender in Presidential Politics. Interview with Amy Goodman. Democracy Now!. http://www.democracynow.org/2008/1/14/race_and_gender_in_presidential_politics. Retrieved April 8, 2011.
- ^ Harris-Perry, Melissa (2011). "Sister Citizen". The Nation. http://www.thenation.com/columns/sister-citizen. Retrieved April 8, 2011.
- ^ http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Who_is_melissa_harris-lacewell_married_to
External links
- Melissa Harris-Perry official website
- Melissa Harris-Perry on Twitter
- Column archive at The Nation
- Appearances on C-SPAN
- Melissa Harris-Perry at the Internet Movie Database
- Works by or about Melissa Victoria Harris-Lacewell in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
- Melissa Harris-Lacewell at the Notable Names Database
- PBS interview (May 18, 2007)
Categories:- 1970s births
- Living people
- African American academics
- African American social scientists
- African American writers
- African American female writers
- American non-fiction writers
- American political scientists
- American social sciences writers
- People from Charlottesville, Virginia
- People from New Orleans, Louisiana
- Duke University alumni
- Princeton University faculty
- Tulane University faculty
- Wake Forest University alumni
- Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.
- American political scientist stubs
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